oliveradria / symfony-elasticbeanstalk-optimization

Some helpful files for optimizing a Symfony (currently 3.3) and AWS ElasticBeanstalk setup

Symfony + AWS ElasticBeanstalk Optimization

Some files that help me optimize a Symfony (currently version 3.3) + with ElasticBeanstalk (Amazon Linux AMI 2.4.4) setup. This is for a »typical« setup that I use, e.g. small to medium sized website, perhaps an SaaS app or a company website.

These are just suggestions, I tried to focus on recommendations that have no or little downside. Use at your own risk.

Deployment

• Copy the .ebextensions folder.
  • The container commands in .ebextensions/app.config (which is read automatically when deploying with ElasticBeanstalk) copies the files. Modify the files as necessary.
  • enable_mod_deflate.conf enables compression in the server (compresses many files on the way to the browser).
  • enable_browser_caching.conf enables basic caching for the browser (e.g. so your users can see pages faster, since it saves the already used files in the browser).
  • redirect_https.config Use this file if you want to always redirect to https.
  • symfony.config sets up the Symfony stuff (e.g. migrations, clearing cache; read file for details on permissions)

Blackfire

Leave200_blackfire_repo.config and 210_blackfire_installation.config in the folder, if you want to use Blackfire. If not, you can delete it, along with the commands in .ebextensions/symfony.config. (Thanks dbisso for the gist)

Good Reading Material

• 5 Ways to optimize Symfony Baseline Performance https://tideways.io/profiler/blog/5-ways-to-optimize-symfony-baseline-performance

• Symfony Docs on Performance https://symfony.com/doc/current/performance.html