DevMemphis - A meetup for Memphis Software Developers

Come learn, share, hang out, and eat Pizza with Memphis software developers. This is a free event open to anyone interested in attending

Ansible for PHP Developers: Configure, Deploy, and Update Your Server Infrastructure
Most PHP developers learn server administration the hard way: SSHing into a box, editing config files by hand, and hoping the next deploy doesn't break what the last one fixed. This workshop introduces Ansible as the way out — not as a checklist of commands to copy, but as a set of concepts (declarative state, idempotency, inventory, roles) that lets attendees author their own infrastructure code. Starting from zero Ansible experience, we build up the mental model: control nodes and managed nodes, modules and tasks, then roles and playbooks. From there we work through a realistic example — provisioning a server for a PHP application, deploying the app, and performing a zero-downtime update using release directories and a `current` symlink. Attendees follow along on their own machines and leave with the concepts and working examples needed to write playbooks for their own stacks. Bring a laptop, basic Linux familiarity, and a willingness to break a few servers along the way.

Joe Ferguson is an experienced software and devops engineer, speaker, leader in the Memphis tech community, and founder of Memphis Technology Foundation. As a seasoned tech-talker, Joe always delivers; so even if you don't know the first thing about PHP or Ansible, you're sure to learn a thing or two.