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Deploy

From laravel new to live in five steps

A LEMP VM, an S3 disk, a release script and a CDN. The same moves you'd make on any Linux box.

~/acme-app — zsh

$ edge compute create --name app \

--size s-2vcpu-4gb --image ubuntu-24 \

--region london --script lemp

✓ vm-c93a1e running · Nginx · PHP 8.3-FPM

$ composer install --no-dev -o

$ php artisan migrate --force

✓ 2026_09_14_create_invoices_table · DONE

$ php artisan config:cache

✓ Configuration cached successfully.

$ sudo systemctl reload php8.3-fpm

Per-site fees$0

app.acme.co.ukLive

PHP8.3-FPM · Nginx

Queuequeue:work · redis

1. 01

   Create a VM with the LEMP stack

   The lemp library script installs Nginx, MySQL 8 and PHP 8.3-FPM on first boot. Add Composer and Redis, or bake everything into your own script with edge compute scripts create.

   shellCopy

   $ edge compute create --name app --size s-2vcpu-4gb \
       --image ubuntu-24 --region london --script lemp \
       --script-param db_password="$(openssl rand -base64 24)"

2. 02

   Add an Edge Storage disk

   Laravel's s3 driver works unchanged once league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 is installed. Set url to your CDN hostname so Storage::url() returns cached links.

   config/filesystems.phpCopy

   'edge' => [
       'driver' => 's3',
       'key' => env('EDGE_ACCESS_KEY'),
       'secret' => env('EDGE_SECRET_KEY'),
       'region' => 'us-east-1',
       'bucket' => env('EDGE_BUCKET', 'acme-uploads'),
       'endpoint' => 'https://storage.edge.network',
       'use_path_style_endpoint' => true,
       'url' => env('EDGE_CDN_URL'),
   ],

3. 03

   Ship a release

   Run it by hand the first time, then move it into CI or Envoy.

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   $ cd /srv/app && git pull
   $ composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
   $ php artisan migrate --force
   $ php artisan config:cache && php artisan route:cache
   $ php artisan queue:restart
   $ sudo systemctl reload php8.3-fpm

4. 04

   Keep queues and the scheduler running

   Run the worker under systemd and add * * * * * php artisan schedule:run to cron. Split workers onto their own VM when the queue grows.

   /etc/systemd/system/laravel-queue.serviceCopy

   [Unit]
   Description=Laravel queue worker
   After=network.target redis-server.service
   
   [Service]
   User=www-data
   WorkingDirectory=/srv/app
   ExecStart=/usr/bin/php artisan queue:work redis --sleep=3 --tries=3
   Restart=always
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

5. 05

   Front it with the CDN

   Pages that set a session cookie pass straight through. Build assets and public Storage URLs are cached everywhere.

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   $ edge cdn create --name acme-app
   $ edge cdn domains add cdn-e4d27b \
       --domain app.acme.co.uk \
       --origin https://<vm-ip> \
       --jit-image

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