Laravel Envoy Deploy
This repository includes an Envoy.blade.php script that is designed to provide a very basic "zero-downtime" deployment option using the open-source Laravel Envoy tool.
Requirements
This Envoy script is designed to be used with Laravel 5 projects.
Installation
Your must have Envoy installed using the Composer global command:
composer global require "laravel/envoy=~1.0"
Usage
Setup
Download or clone this repository then edit the envoy.config.php file with the ssh login, Git repository, server path for your app.
The $path (server path) should already be created in your server and be a blank directory.
You should set your website root directory (in vhost / server config) to $path/current (e.g /var/www/default/current)
Init
When you're happy with the config, run the init task on your local machine by running the following in the repository directory
envoy run init
You can specify the Laravel environment (for artisan:migrate command) and git branch as options
envoy run init --branch=develop --env=development
You only need to run the init task once.
The init task creates a .env file in your root path - make sure and update the environment variables appropriately.
Deploy
Each time you want to deploy simply run the deploy task on your local machine in the repository direcory
envoy run deploy
You can specify the Laravel environment (for artisan:migrate command) and git branch as options
envoy run deploy --branch=develop --env=development
How it Works
Your $path directory will look something like this after you init and then deploy.
20150317110501/
20150317114500/
current -> ./20150317114500
storage/
.env
As you can see, the current directory is symlinked to the latest deployment folder
Inside one of your deployment folders looks like the following (excluded some laravel folders for space)
app/
artisan
boostrap/
composer.json
.env -> ../.env
storage -> ../storage
vendor/
The deployment folder .env file and storage directory are symlinked to the parent folders in the main (parent) path.
Todo
- Cleanup old deployment folders
Disclaimer
This has only been tested so far with a Laravel Homestead / Vagrant VM. Use on a live server at your own risk and make sure you read through the script and set the config correctly!
Contributing
Please submit improvements and fixes :)
Credits
- Servers for Hackers for inspiration
- @noeldiaz on Laracasts for deployment cleanups
- Harmen Stoppels for cloning HEAD only