Introduction

This chapter explains how to install and manage Magento 2 on a production-like environment. We will be installing a new Magento 2 instance via the shell command with and without sample data. Besides the setup, managing Magento 2 is different from the current Magento version. We will be using a lot of tools from the command line so basic shell knowledge is advised. The command-line tool in the /bin directory is similar to the current Swiss army knife tool in the current Magento version known as n98-magerun.

Using bin/magento and Composer is one of the new key features in Magento 2 that will rock your world.

The recipes in this chapter will focus primarily on a more advanced setup of how to install Magento 2 and manage it. However, in some situations, we will dive in deeper related to the subject.

Here is an overview of all the command-line tools in Magento 2:

root@mage2cookbook:/var/www/html# bin/magento
Magento CLI version 2.0.0

Usage:
 command [options] [arguments]

Options...