Configure services

The services.yaml file defines the services supported and used by Magento Commerce Cloud, such as MySQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch. You do not need to subscribe to external service providers. This file is in the .magento directory of your project.

The deploy script uses the configuration files in the .magento directory to provision the environment with the configured services. A service becomes available to your application if it is included in the relationships property of the .magento.app.yaml file. The services.yaml file contains the type and disk values. Service type defines the service name and version. Changing a service configuration causes a deployment to provision the environment with the updated services.

This affects the following environments:

• All Starter environments including Production master
• Pro Integration environments

For Pro projects, you must create a Support ticket to install or update services in Staging and Production environments. Indicate the service changes needed and include your updated .magento.app.yaml and services.yaml files in the ticket. It can take up to 48 hours for the Cloud infrastructure team to update your project.

Default and supported services

We support and deploy the following services:

• mysql
• redis
• elasticsearch
• rabbitmq

You can view default versions and disk values in the current, default services.yaml file. The following sample shows the mysql, redis, and elasticsearch services defined in the services.yaml configuration file:

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mysql:
    type: mysql:<version>
    disk: 5120

redis:
    type: redis:<version>

elasticsearch:
    type: elasticsearch:<version>
    disk: 1024

Service values

You must provide the and service type configuration `type: :`. If the service uses persistent storage, then you must provide a _disk_ value.

Use the following format:

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<service-id>:
    type: <name>:<version>
    disk: <value-MB>

service-id

The service-id value identifies the service in the project. You can only use lower case alphanumeric characters: a to z and 0 to 9, such as redis.

This service-id value is used in the relationships property of the .magento.app.yaml configuration file:

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relationships:
    redis: "<name>:redis"

You can name multiple instances of each service type. For example, we could use multiple Redis instances—one for session and one for cache.

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redis:
    type: redis:<version>

redis2:
    type: redis:<version>

Renaming a service in the services.yaml file permanently removes the following:

• The existing service before creating a new service with the new name you specify.
• All existing data for the service is removed. We strongly recommend you snapshot your environment before you change the name of an existing service.

type

The type value specifies the service name and version. For example:

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mysql:
    type: mysql:10.3

Use Service versions table to see supported services and their versions

disk

The disk value specifies the size of the persistent disk storage (in MB) to allocate to the service. Services that use persistent storage, such as MySQL, must provide a disk value. Services that use memory instead of persistent storage, such as Redis, do not require a disk value.

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mysql:
    type: mysql:10.3
    disk: 5120

The current default storage amount per project is 5GB, or 5120MB. You can distribute this amount between your application and each of its services.

Service relationships

In Magento Commerce Cloud projects, service relationships configured in the .magento.app.yaml file determine which services are available to your application.

You can retrieve the configuration data for all service relationships from the $MAGENTO_CLOUD_RELATIONSHIPS environment variable. The configuration data includes service name, type, and version along with any required connection details such as port number and login credentials.

To verify relationships in local environment:

1. In your local environment, show the relationships for the active environment.

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   magento-cloud relationships
   

2. Confirm the service and type from the response. The response provides connection information, such as the IP address and port number.

   Abbreviated sample response:

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   redis:
       -
   ...
           type: 'redis:3.8'
           port: 6379
   elasticsearch:
       -
   ...
           type: 'elasticsearch:6.6'
           port: 9200
   database:
       -
   ...
           type: 'mysql:10.3'
           port: 3306
   

To verify relationships in remote environments:

1. Use SSH to log in to the remote environment.

2. List the relationships configuration data for all services configured in the environment.

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   echo $MAGENTO_CLOUD_RELATIONSHIPS | base64 -d | json_pp
   

   or, use the following ece-tools CLI command to view relationships:

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   php ./vendor/bin/ece-tools env:config:show services
   

3. Confirm the service and type from the response. The response provides connection information, such as the IP address and port number and any required username and password credentials.

Service versions

Version support and compatibility for Magento Commerce on Cloud is determined by service versions deployed on the Cloud infrastructure. In some cases, the supported or recommended versions differ from the versions supported by Magento Commerce on-premises deployments.

The following table lists the services used in Magento Commerce Cloud and their version compatibility with the Magento Cloud template.

When you set up the Elasticsearch service, check to ensure that you use a version that is compatible with the installed Elasticsearch PHP client. See Check Elasticsearch software compatibility.

Software EOL checks

During the deployment process, ece-tools checks installed service versions against the end-of-life (EOL) dates for each service.

• If a service version is within three months of the EOL date, a notification displays in the deploy log.
• If the EOL date is in the past, a warning notification displays.

To maintain Magento store security, update installed software versions before they reach EOL. You can review the EOL dates in the ece-tools eol.yaml file.

Change service version

You can upgrade the installed service version for compatibility with the Magento version deployed in your Cloud environment.

You cannot downgrade the service version for an installed service directly. However, you can create a new service with the required version. See Downgrade service version.

Use the Service versions table to check service version compatibility by Magento version. Note that some service versions supported by Magento Commerce are not supported on Magento Commerce Cloud.

Upgrade installed service version

You can upgrade the installed service version by updating the service configuration in the services.yaml file.

1. Change the type value for the service in the .magento/services.yaml file:

   Original service definition

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   mysql:
       type: mysql:10.2
       disk: 2048
   

   Updated service definition

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   mysql:
       type: mysql:10.3
       disk: 5120
   

2. Add, commit, and push your code changes.

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   git commit -m "Upgrade MySQL from MariaDB 10.2 to 10.3."
   

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   git push origin <branch-name>
   

Downgrade version

You cannot downgrade an installed service directly. You have two options:

• Rename an existing service with the new version, which removes the existing service and data, and adds a new one.

• Create a new service and save the data from the existing service.

When you change the service version, you must update the service configuration in the services.yaml file, and update the relationships in the .magento.app.yaml file.

To downgrade a service version by renaming an existing service:

1. Rename the existing service in the .magento/services.yaml file and change the version.

   Renaming an existing service replaces it and deletes all data. If you need to retain the data, create a new service instead of renaming the existing one.

   For example, to downgrade the MariaDB version for the mysql service from version 10.3 to 10.2, change the existing service-id and type configuration.

   Original services.yaml definition

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     mysql:
         type: mysql:10.4
         disk: 5120
   

   New services.yaml definition

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     mysql2:
          type: mysql:10.3
          disk: 5120
   

2. Update the relationships in the .magento.app.yaml file.

   Original .magento.app.yaml configuration

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   relationships:
       database: "mysql:mysql"
   

   Updated .magento.app.yaml configuration

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   relationships:
       database: "mysql2:mysql"
   

3. Add, commit, and push your code changes.

To downgrade a service by creating an additional service:

1. Add an additional service definition to the services.yaml file for your project with the downgraded version specification. See mysql2 in the following example:

   services.yaml

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   mysql:
       type: mysql:10.4
       disk: 5120
   mysql2:
       type: mysql:10.3
       disk: 5120
   

2. Change the relationships configuration in the .magento.app.yaml file to use the new service.

   Original .magento.app.yaml configuration

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     relationships:
         database: "mysql:mysql"
   

   New .magento.app.yaml configuration

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     relationships:
         database: "mysql2:mysql"
   

3. Add, commit, and push your code changes.