October CMS projects can be managed using different Git strategies depending on the size and complexity of your site. This article covers recommended workflows for local development, version control, and server synchronization.

If you don't have SSH access to the server or can't run Composer commands for any reason, you can deploy an October CMS project using the official Deploy plugin. It suits hosting where shell access is limited, such as shared hosting, and it can also upgrade or repair an installation without command line access.

This tutorial sets up an Amazon S3 bucket for the October CMS media manager: creating a public bucket, creating an API user for October CMS, and pointing the media disk at the bucket.

This post continues as the second part of the Running October on AWS series.

In this post series, we will explain how to build cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services (AWS).