Laravel Envoy - Automate the boring stuff
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Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.
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Posts tagged with envoy
Tailing multiple Laravel logs with Envoy
– rias.be
A pretty cool use case for Laravel Envoy.
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How to set up your Laravel application for zero-downtime deploys
On his blog Matt Stauffer published a new post explaining the steps required to deploy your app without any downtime.
The reason you're getting zero-downtime deploy from these tools is because the entire deploy process—clone, composer install, etc.—doesn't happen in the directory that is currently serving your site. Instead, each new release gets its own separate "release" directory, all while your site is still being served from its current "release" directory.
In my own projects I handle these capistrano like deploys using a custom Envoy script: https://github.com/spatie/blender/blob/master/Envoy.blade.php
Zero downtime deployments with Envoy original
Envoy is Laravel's official task runner. Using a Blade style syntax tasks can be defined that can be run both locally and remotely. At Spatie, we've been using Envoy for quite some time to deploy code on production servers. Summarized our trusty Envoy script did the following things: bringing the…
Run tasks locally with Envoy
Envoy is an easy to use task runner created by master artisan Taylor Otwell. It offers a simple blade-like syntax to create tasks. If you're not familiar with it, you can watch this free Laracasts-video. Chris Fidao recently showed, in his excellent Servers For Hackers newsletter, how you can create a light version of Capistrano with Envoy.
Up until a few hours ago a task could only run via ssh. But now that this pull request has been merged, you can also use envoy to locally run commands.
