Devops With Laravel By Martin Joo Apr 2026

When you push git push origin main , your code should test, build, deploy, and migrate without you logging into a server. If you are SSH'ing into a box to run composer update , you have lost the DevOps game.

Let’s be honest: Most Laravel tutorials stop at the point where you run php artisan serve and see "Laravel" rendered in white text on a black background. But shipping software isn't about your local environment. It’s about how reliably you can move code from your laptop to a server, run migrations without downtime, and wake up without a 3 AM alert about a full disk.

We need a symlink release strategy. Instead of updating the "current" folder, we deploy to a release folder and then symlink. DevOps with Laravel by Martin Joo

DevOps isn't a job title. It's a set of practices. For a Laravel developer, that means treating your servers, queues, caches, and deploys as part of the codebase.

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* * * * * php /path-to-your-project/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1 If you have multiple servers (load balancer), only run the scheduler on one server (usually the primary). Otherwise, your daily report will run 3 times. 5. Assets are not your server's problem Laravel Mix or Vite? Great. Running npm run prod on your production server is slow and requires Node.js installed on your PHP server.

Treat your infrastructure the way you treat your code: versioned, automated, and boring. Boring is stable. Stable is fast. Martin Joo writes about Laravel architecture and clean code. If you enjoyed this, stop fighting your server and start shipping. When you push git push origin main ,

It does this natively. Rolling your own: Use Deployer or a custom script: