Deploy your Laravel app from scratch

1

Introduction and preparations

In this first episode, we take a look at the big picture of what we’ll achieve by the end of this series and get started by purchasing our domain name.

2

Set up a server for Laravel applications

In this lengthy episode, we create a server from scratch on Digital Ocean that includes everything we need to welcome our Laravel application.

3

Install and configure Deployer

In this article, we’re configuring a powerful deployment flow in a few lines of code by installing the Deployer library to our Laravel application.

4

Deploy with zero-downtime

Now that we have Deployer installed and configured, let’s hit the deploy button and ship our application to our server.

5

Create your own Deployer recipes

We go one step further with Deployer by learning how to create our own custom tasks and recipes enabling even more powerful deployments.

6

Deploy using Laravel Forge

Setting up and maintaining servers for our Laravel applications can be quite a stressful endeavour. In this episode, we see how to delegate these tasks to Laravel Forge whilst using Deployer.

7

Deploy using Ploi

Ploi is a feature-rich alternative to Laravel Forge that enables you to set up and maintain servers through an intuitive UI. In this episode, we see how to use Ploi and Deployer together.

8

The complete checklist

We've learned and set up a lot of things in the series. This article act as a complete checklist of this series organised by topics. The perfect article to come back to when you get your hands dirty.