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title: Shopware PaaS Native Essentials | Shopware Community Hub
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  Learn how to position, configure, deploy, and operate Shopware 6 on Shopware
  PaaS Native using the sw-paas CLI, application.yaml , Vault, Git-based…
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# Shopware PaaS Native Essentials

# Welcome to Shopware PaaS Native Essentials

Shopware PaaS Native is Shopware’s managed platform for running Shopware 6 projects. Instead of managing infrastructure, you focus on code, configuration, and deployments.

In this learning path, you will learn when Native PaaS is the right fit and how to use it in real projects, so you can configure, deploy, and operate Shopware environments with confidence.

The path moves through three stages: getting the platform fit and setup right, understanding configuration and delivery, and making realistic runtime and go-live decisions.

This is the entry learning path for Shopware PaaS Native, but it assumes existing Shopware development practice and basic CLI, Git, and Composer knowledge.

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Native PaaS is in pilot / early availability. Features, SLAs (Service Level Agreements), billing views, and documentation are still evolving. Formal SLA documents and some operational automations, such as self-service rollback, may still be work in progress. Align with Shopware and the latest developer documentation before you promise timelines to merchants.

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## What You Will Learn

This learning path takes you through the full Native PaaS workflow, from the first platform decision to runtime operations:

- Positioning and setup: understand what Native PaaS is, when it fits, how `sw-paas` access works, and how Git and Composer act as the source of truth.
- Configuration and delivery: place values correctly in `application.yaml`, Vault, or `.env`, understand build versus deploy, and decide what belongs after deployment.
- Runtime and go-live: debug with the right tools, work with managed services and scaling expectations, and prepare domains, rollback planning, and platform limits realistically.

## Who This Is For

- Backend developers and DevOps engineers at Shopware agency partners who ship, deploy, and run Shopware 6 projects.
- Solutions architects and technical consultants who compare hosting models and plan CI/CD, secrets, and environments for Shopware projects.

## Prerequisites

Before diving into this learning path, make sure you have:

- Completed [Shopware Backend Development Essentials](/learn/path/shopware-backend-development-essentials) or have equivalent hands-on Shopware backend practice.
- Confidence using a Linux or macOS CLI for everyday project work.
  - On Windows, use WSL2 (recommended in enablement).
- Basic knowledge of Git workflows and CI/CD concepts, including branches, deploy keys, tokens, and the difference between build and deploy.
- Basic knowledge of Composer and dependency management.

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<CollapsibleSection title="Recommended: Shopware Backend Development Intermediate">

- [Use and Create APIs](/learn/course/use-and-create-apis)
- [Events and DI](/learn/course/events-and-di)
- [Advanced Testing With PHPUnit and PHPStan](/learn/course/advanced-testing-phpunit-phpstan)
- [Data Abstraction Layer](/learn/course/data-abstraction-layer)

These courses help you reason better about integrations, custom code behavior, failure analysis, and application-level debugging.

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<CollapsibleSection title="Recommended: Shopware for Solutions Architects">

- [Shopware Architecture](/learn/course/solutions-architect-shopware-architecture)
- [Development Environments](/learn/course/solutions-architect-development-environments)
- [Shopware Configuration and Management](/learn/course/solutions-architect-shopware-configuration-and-management)

These courses help you place platform environments, configuration scope, and operational responsibilities more clearly.

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## Courses

## Courses
- [Getting Started with Shopware PaaS Native](/learn/course/getting-started-with-shopware-paas-native): Understand Shopware PaaS Native, set up sw-paas access, connect Git safely, and prepare a Composer-based Shopware project for predictable Native PaaS builds.
- [Configuration, Deployment, and Post-Deploy Work](/learn/course/configuration-deployment-and-post-deploy-work): Learn how configuration, builds, deployments, and post-deploy work fit together on Native PaaS so that you can place values correctly, follow rollouts…
- [Runtime Operations & Maintenance](/learn/course/runtime-operations-and-maintenance): Learn how debugging, managed services, scaling expectations, and go-live operations fit together on Native PaaS so that runtime decisions start from the right…