Magento Cheat Sheet

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A single-page, colour-coded summary of the Magento subsection: what each edition allows (Magento Open Source, Mage-OS, Adobe Commerce on-premises, on Cloud and as a Cloud Service), the release lines with their end-of-support dates and the Cloud enforcement deadlines, the system requirements, installation with Composer, the everyday bin/magento commands, the module skeleton, di.xml, plugins and observers, declarative schema and patches, a Luma child theme, the REST and GraphQL endpoints with the token types, the out-of-process building blocks, a security checklist and a short list of test, upgrade and performance reminders. It reflects Magento 2.4.9 (generally available 2026-05-12) and Mage-OS 3.6.0 (2026-10-14), checked on 2026-10-27, and is available as a downloadable PDF. A "Cloud deployment" block summarises the database, state placement, cron, release steps and key commands for the cloud deployment pages (checked on 2026-10-29).

For the full explanation, every option, and additional examples, see the dedicated pages:

Overview and setup — Magento, Editions and Ecosystem, Versions, Lifecycle and Requirements, Installation, Local Development Environments, Admin and Store Setup.

Architecture and modules — Architecture Overview, Module Anatomy, Dependency Injection, Plugins, Events and Observers, Service Contracts and Repositories, Declarative Schema and Patches, EAV and Attributes.

Storefront and Admin — Routing, Controllers, Blocks, Layouts and Templates, Admin Development, Frontend: Luma Themes, Frontend: Hyvä, PWA Studio and Edge Delivery.

Operations — CLI, Cron and Message Queues, Caching, Indexing and Performance, Security, Upgrades.

APIs and extensibility — REST and GraphQL APIs, API Authentication, Out-of-Process Extensibility.

Commerce features — Checkout and Payments, Catalog, Multistore and B2B.

Quality and ecosystem — Testing, Coding Standards and Marketplace.

Cloud deployment — Cloud: Reference Architecture, Cloud: Managed Database (RDS and Aurora), Cloud: OpenSearch, Valkey and RabbitMQ as Managed Services, Cloud: Container Image and Pipeline Build, Cloud: Media and Remote Storage, Cloud: Varnish and Full Page Cache on Kubernetes, Cloud: Cron, Queue Consumers and Indexers, Cloud: EKS Infrastructure and Helm Deployment, Cloud: Releases and Zero-Downtime Deployments, Cloud: Autoscaling, Observability, Backups and Security, Cloud: Migrating from a Single Server, and Cloud: Google Cloud, Azure and Alternatives.

Cheat Sheet (PDF) — Cheat Sheet (PDF).

Cloud deployment

The summary printed in the PDF for running Magento on many pods in the cloud on Amazon EKS (checked on 2026-10-29); each row is explained on the pages above.

Topic Rule

Topic	Rule
Database	RDS for MySQL 8.4 or MariaDB 12.3, or Aurora MySQL 3 (listed by Adobe for 2.4.9); `env.php` reads the environment with TLS; `mg_app` and a migration user; split database is deprecated since 2.4.2.
State placement	Five services: RDS, OpenSearch 3.x, two Valkey groups (cache and sessions), Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.3, S3 for media (remote storage driver, `remote-storage:sync`); Varnish StatefulSet for the full page cache; `config.php` committed, secrets in the environment; code, DI and static content built into the image.
Cron	One CronJob running `cron:run --group=<id> --bootstrap=standaloneProcessStarted=1` per group; consumers as Deployments running `queue:consumers:start` scaled by KEDA, `cron_consumers_runner` off; indexers on Update by Schedule.
Release steps	Gate with `setup:db:status`; pre-upgrade Job `setup:upgrade --keep-generated` (or `app:config:import`); pause consumers and cron; rolling update behind Varnish; static content and DI are built into the image, so nothing is compiled at run time.
Key commands	`bin/magento setup:db:status`, `indexer:status`, `queue:consumers:list`, `cache:status`, `config:show web/secure/base_url`, `helm upgrade pocketcoffee ./pocketcoffee-magento`.

Database

RDS for MySQL 8.4 or MariaDB 12.3, or Aurora MySQL 3 (listed by Adobe for 2.4.9); env.php reads the environment with TLS; mg_app and a migration user; split database is deprecated since 2.4.2.

State placement

Five services: RDS, OpenSearch 3.x, two Valkey groups (cache and sessions), Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ 4.3, S3 for media (remote storage driver, remote-storage:sync); Varnish StatefulSet for the full page cache; config.php committed, secrets in the environment; code, DI and static content built into the image.

Cron

One CronJob running cron:run --group=<id> --bootstrap=standaloneProcessStarted=1 per group; consumers as Deployments running queue:consumers:start scaled by KEDA, cron_consumers_runner off; indexers on Update by Schedule.

Release steps

Gate with setup:db:status; pre-upgrade Job setup:upgrade --keep-generated (or app:config:import); pause consumers and cron; rolling update behind Varnish; static content and DI are built into the image, so nothing is compiled at run time.

Key commands

bin/magento setup:db:status, indexer:status, queue:consumers:list, cache:status, config:show web/secure/base_url, helm upgrade pocketcoffee ./pocketcoffee-magento.

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