Level 30
Work with Git and Forge - In my opinion it`s the best stack to deploy your laravel apps.
Just push your changes to your git repo and forge handles the rest for you. For production sites you can also use Envoyer.
Apr 20, 2016
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Level 15
Deploying with Capistrano. Is there a better approach?
I am currently deploying my app with capistrano 3. Any time I deploy I need to run these 3 steps
- rename .env.production to .env
- run composer install since vendor folder won't exist
- run php artisan key:generate
Is there a more efficient way of doing this? Is there no way to deploy and still maintain the vendors folder and .env file if I have already run the above 3 tasks and nothing has changed?
Level 15
Yea.. trying to skip the extra $10/m on either Forge or Envoyer. Capistrano works fine.. it's just the extra hustle of constantly running those 3 tasks after each deployment.
Level 30
Then you have to setup your own hook if a git commit was pushed to run an ssh script.
Here is a tutorial how to setup git deployment pull https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-automatic-deployment-with-git-with-a-vps
Of course you can also write your own little ssh script with the above commands and then just run the ssh script manually.
Level 15
Thanks.... I found an article that addressed what I want to achieve. https://www.airpair.com/laravel/posts/automating-laravel-deployments-using-capistrano
Level 6
I love using https://github.com/REBELinBLUE/deployer same as envoyer but free
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