JTL Shop Deployment Guide: Automate and Scale Your E-commerce Platform

For DevOps engineers and JTL Shop developers who want to automate, scale, and secure their JTL Shop deployment with modern cloud tooling.

Why Automate JTL Shop Deployment

JTL Shop is a powerful e-commerce platform — but manual deployment can quickly become a bottleneck. Configuration drift, inconsistent environments, and manual updates slow down delivery.

By automating your deployment pipeline with iDeployed, you get:

Consistent, reproducible deployments
Automated scaling and rollback
Version control for your infrastructure
Faster CI/CD cycles for feature releases
Full GDPR-compliant hosting in the EU

1. Preparing Your Environment

Before you deploy, ensure you have:

A domain (e.g., shop.example.com)
Containerized JTL Shop (Dockerfile)
Kubernetes cluster (iDeployed manages this for you)
Configured DNS and SSL (auto-managed via iDeployed)
JTL Wawi API credentials (for synchronization)

If you’re using iDeployed, these steps are preconfigured for you — all you need to do is select your shop version and domain.

Example Dockerfile for JTL Shop 5.x:

FROM php:8.1-apache
WORKDIR /var/www/html

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
  libzip-dev zip unzip git curl libpng-dev libonig-dev libxml2-dev   && docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mbstring exif pcntl bcmath gd

# Copy JTL Shop files
COPY . /var/www/html

# Set permissions
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html

EXPOSE 80
CMD ["apache2-foreground"]
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2. Automated Deployment via iDeployed

Once you’ve prepared your JTL Shop, deployment is as simple as one click. iDeployed uses a custom Kubernetes Operator written in Go that provisions all required infrastructure components automatically.

Here’s what happens under the hood when you click Deploy:

Namespace creation for your shop instance
Persistent Volumes for database and media files
Secrets & ConfigMaps for environment variables
Ingress setup for SSL and routing
Automatic build from your Git repository

YAML example for a typical iDeployed deployment (simplified):

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: jtl-shop
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: jtl-shop
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: jtl-shop
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: jtl-shop
          image: registry.ideployed.com/jtl-shop:5.2
          envFrom:
            - secretRef:
                name: jtl-shop-env
          ports:
            - containerPort: 80
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3. Continuous Delivery Pipeline

For teams using GitHub or GitLab, iDeployed integrates directly with your repository. Each time you push a change, your shop automatically redeploys to staging or production.

Example GitHub Action for JTL Shop:

name: Deploy JTL Shop
on:
  push:
    branches: [ "main" ]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: Trigger iDeployed
        run: |
          curl -X POST https://api.ideployed.com/deploy           -H "Authorization: Bearer ${{ secrets.IDEPLOYED_API_KEY }}"           -d "repository=${{ github.repository }}"           -d "branch=${{ github.ref_name }}"
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4. Managing Updates and Rollbacks

Each JTL Shop deployment on iDeployed is versioned. You can roll back to any previous build with a single click, or automate updates through your CI pipeline.

Example rollback command (via CLI or API):

ideployed rollback --version=5.2.1 --domain=shop.example.com
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5. Monitoring and Logs

iDeployed integrates with Prometheus and Grafana, giving you insight into:

Uptime and response times
PHP errors and access logs
Resource usage (CPU, memory, bandwidth)
Real-time alerts for failed pods or HTTP errors

You can view logs directly in the iDeployed dashboard or export them to your own observability stack.

6. Security and Compliance

Every deployment is encrypted and GDPR-compliant by default:

TLS enforced for all connections
Data stored in ISO-certified EU datacenters
Automated daily backups
Role-based access control (RBAC) for team management

Your data stays within the EU — always.

7. Conclusion

By automating JTL Shop deployments through iDeployed, you eliminate manual steps, reduce risk, and improve your team’s delivery speed.

⚡ Deploy your JTL Shop in 1 click with iDeployed. Choose your version, enter your domain, and watch your deployment go live in seconds. Start your free trial →

How to Easily Deploy JTL Shop with Modern Cloud Infrastructure