Services like DigitalOcean and Linode are incredibly cheap and scalable, however, they do assume a certain level of server administration knowledge. Even with these skills, performing common tasks can prove to be a burden. Thankfully, Laravel Forge, built by the creator of Laravel (Taylor Otwell), is here to save the day.
Overview
Syllabus
- Say Hello to Forge
- Why Forge?
- Your First Project
- Connecting to Your Database
- Using Environment Variables
- Scheduling Tasks
- Queues with Forge
- Hooking Up a Custom Domain Name
- Hooking into New Relic
- Supplementary: What's New in Forge?
- Transition Forge Deployments to Envoyer
- PHP 7 with Free SSL in Minutes
- Set Up a Staging Server
Taught by
Jeffrey Way