Important Note The methodology explained here is outdated, please read Deploying Symfony2 Apps via Scalarium: Improved Methodology for an updated version. About This article describes how to use the cloud-based cluster-management platform Scalarium in order to automatically mass-deploy Symfony2 applications with a MySQL database backend onto clusters of Amazon EC2 virtual machines by creating a special Symfony2 environment, using a custom Chef recipe, and making use of Doctrine migrations.