Phystrix Example

This project is an example on how to use Phystrix tool. It contains a simply Symfony application that makes queries to a MySQL database.

The project is run using docker containers for php, mysql and hystrix-dashboard to show the phystrix metrics.

You can know a bit more about phystrix in the presentation Resilient PHP applications with Phystrix.

Requirements

You need docker and docker-compose to run this project.

Installation

• Update your system /etc/hosts file and add symfony.dev (see the docker-symfony README.md file for more information).

• Inside the docker folder create an .env file based on .env.dist, build images with $ docker-compose build and run containers with $ docker-compose up -d.

• Go into PHP container: $ docker-compose exec php bash and then:

  • create database: $ php bin/console doctrine:database:create
  • and model scheme: $ php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
  • and fill with some fixtures $ php bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load.

Running the examples

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Notes

The docker folder contains the configuration needed to build the required containers for this project, mainly php-fpm, mysql and hystrix-dasboard. It is based on the project docker-symfony and hystrix-dashboard.