Laravel 9 Deployment on Digital Ocean

I've spent a lot of time setting my droplet, I'm using the LEMP stack. I've successfully installed nginx, mysql, php and I already got them running. Now I want to move my project on the server. All the tutorials I'm seeing online is just creating a fresh Laravel project on the server., but I want to install my project from github.

Another thing is that there are a lot of guides online but each is different from one another, so it's really overwhelming for me since its my first time deploying.

I also see some guides or comments that recommends Cloudways but I don't think I can avail it since I'm only using the digital ocean credit from github student pack. Also I want to learn how to install it manually on linux since I think that would be handy for me in the future.

Also, I want to learn how you would prepare your laravel project for deployment another thing that the guides are lacking.

Or maybe someone can link me a proper resource on how I can install my laravel 9 project, I would really appreciate it!