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Host storefront with Symfony: relational catalog data

Summary

Deploy a storefront built with Symfony on Ample using the transactional workflows pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL. Verified on Symfony: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected). Not separately tested: your domain records, validation rules and concurrency policy; treat the storefront-specific behavior as your application code.

Representative Queries

• Host storefront with Symfony: relational catalog data
• Where can I host Storefront built with Symfony?
• I need catalog tables, transactional update logic and application-level access boundaries.

Resource Requirements

• primitive:compute
• primitive:postgres

Infrastructure Requirements

1. Compute:
   • Primitive ID: primitive:compute
   • Status: verified
   • Summary: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. Postgres:
   • Primitive ID: primitive:postgres
   • Status: verified
   • Summary: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.

Prerequisites

• A Symfony project that builds and starts with the documented commands (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock with Symfony Runtime's dotenv disabled (extra.runtime.disable_dotenv; .env never ships, its values arrive as encrypted env, and compile-time parameters such as DEFAULT_URI need a default), then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template with APP_ENV=prod)
• A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
• An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read

Workflow Steps

1. Build and start
   composer install --no-dev from composer.lock with Symfony Runtime's dotenv disabled (extra.runtime.disable_dotenv; .env never ships, its values arrive as encrypted env, and compile-time parameters such as DEFAULT_URI need a default), then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template with APP_ENV=prod. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL
   The fixture's module implements transactional workflows: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. Deploy
   ample deploy . --name --public
4. Verify
   ample logs --kind build

Costs Estimate

• Monthly Amount: $10.0 USD
  • App Server: s-1vcpu-1gb - $5.00
  • Managed PostgreSQL Database: s-1vcpu-1gb - $5.00

    Always-on monthly prices of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.