The Workshop: New OS, Old PHP

We continue our containerization journey from last month where we covered how to refactor an application that created PDF files to use S3 to store the documents instead of relying on the local server’s storage. Another challenge often found is when an application uses outdated PHP and runs on an unsupported/outdated operating system version. What happens if you find yourself in the scenario where your current operating system is reaching the end of life (EOL) while the new LTS doesn’t support your current PHP version? What happens if you weren’t able to keep up with PHP’s release cadence? The good news, we can use containers to bundle our application with our old PHP version, which we can run on newer operating system versions.