We Just Wanted to Deploy a PHP Website
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A small dev team replaced a basic Git-webhook deployment with a proper CI/CD pipeline for their PHP framework, Charm. Production was doing double duty as a build machine, so they separated build from deploy using Forgejo Actions, a local Debian VM, custom Docker images, and compressed artifacts with checksums and metadata — all without Kubernetes or any heavy orchestration.
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