📗Deploy a Laravel App on Clouddley Triggr

In this guide, we'll learn how to deploy a Laravel application on Triggr. Before that, let’s talk about what Clouddley Triggr is. Clouddley Triggr is a zero downtime application deployment tool that auto-detects your runtime and deploys your application to your server, virtual machines, and bare metal. Let's get started!

Prerequisites

• A GitHub or Bitbucket Account.

• A Clouddley account.

• A Laravel application.

• A Virtual machine on a Cloud platform or bare metal server.

Deploy the Laravel Application

Optimize your Codebase for Deployment

Before the Laravel application deployment, with the way Triggr is designed, you would need to set up specific requirements, which include specifying the required PHP extensions and web server for your application.

• PHP Extensions

In Laravel, PHP extensions add extra functionalities and improve performance. Laravel handles most extensions automatically to ensure the required ones are installed on your host server for optimal application performance. To set this up on Triggr, you need to;

• Create a .php.ini.d folder in the application’s root directory.

• Create a custom .ini file in the .php.ini.d folder.

For this application, we created a file custom.ini with the necessary extensions needed for the application to run smoothly.

extension=fileinfo.so
extension=curl.so
extension=openssl.so

This enables the required extensions for this application. You can read more about enabling extensions here.

• Web server

We will be deploying this application with Nginx, a popular choice for deploying Laravel applications due to its speed, security features, ease of configuration, and compatibility with PHP-FPM. To configure this, we will be creating a Toml file project.toml in the application root directory.

[[build.env]]
name='BP_PHP_SERVER'
value='nginx'
[[build.env]]
name='BP_PHP_WEB_DIR'
value='public'

This defines the configuration settings that can be assessed during the build process. Once you are done, you are ready to deploy your application on Triggr.

Accessing Clouddley Triggr Apps

• Open your web browser, log in to your Clouddley account

• Navigate to Triggr Apps and click on Deploy App

Step 1: Configure Service

• Choose your Git hosting service; either GitHub or Bitbucket. For this tutorial, we will be using GitHub.

• Click on Continue with GitHub

Step 2: Configure Git

• To connect your GitHub user or organization account, click the Select username/organization dropdown and Add GitHub account.

• Select your repository and the branch from the dropdown list or quickly search.

• Click on NEXT

Step 3: Configure your Virtual Machine

• To configure your VM, insert your VM hostname or IP address, VM user, and the VM port for SSH access.

• Use the Clouddley CLI (recommended) or connect via SSH to verify.

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clouddley/cli/main/install.sh | sh

clouddley triggr install

ssh-copy-id -f -i ~/path/to/downloaded/Publickey username@ipaddress

• Click on Verify. This verifies the connection

• Click on NEXT

Step 4: Configure app settings

Insert the name of the application and its port.

Step 5: Configure Environment Variables

• To add environment variables, click on ➕ Add Variable

• Choose an ENV mode: either a single variable or import variables. Learn more here.

Single Variable

Import Variables

• Add the key-value pairs and Click on Save

• Click on NEXT

Step 6: Setup Notifications (optional)

• To configure the notification settings of the application, click on ➕ Add Alert

• Select the Alert type. For this tutorial, we will set up Email alerts.

• Toggle on the buttons of the deployment event (failed, timed out, or success) you want to be notified of.

• Enter the Email address where you want to receive alerts. (You can add multiple email addresses)

• Click on Save

• Click on Deploy

Step 7: Test and Verify the app

• Click on Go to Dashboard. Your app will be visible on the Triggr apps dashboard.

• After the app deployment is complete, the app status changes from deploying to running

• Click on 🌐 Website at the top right corner of the page, this opens the URL of the deployed application in your browser.

• You can test the application functionalities.

You have successfully deployed a Laravel application on Triggr. You can manage it directly from the app dashboard by clicking the three dots (...) at the top-right corner to access Edit, Instant Rollback, Scale, Pause, and Delete options.

Furthermore, you can switch to different tabs on the application dashboard to perform the following actions; view your deployment history, view or download logs, add a custom domain, and view the environment variables.

Conclusion

Congratulations🎉 on successfully deploying a Laravel application on Clouddley Triggr. You can find the source code for this application here. You can also check out how different frameworks can be deployed on Clouddley Triggr in our how-to guides.