In this series, guest instructor Marcel Pociot (Beyond Code) will steer you through the ins and outs of building and configuring servers with Laravel Forge. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran hoping to streamline your server workflow, or a beginner who doesn’t know where to start, Marcel will get you up to speed in no time.
Say Hello To Forge
To get started, let's review the basic set of features that Forge provides out of the box.
Why Forge
In this lesson, we'll discuss why you should consider Forge in the first place. Why not build up a Digital Ocean box yourself? Well, as you'll find, it can be a bit overwhelming and cumbersome to do manually.
Your First Project
Let's setup our first project with Laravel Forge. Once registered, within minutes, we'll deploy a fresh PHP 7.2 application.
Hooking Up A Custom Domain
A common task, when working with Forge, is to point a domain name to a specific server. In this lesson, I'll demonstrate exactly how.
Hooking Up Laravel Horizon
Let's move on and learn how to integrate Laravel Horizon with our Forge-provisioned server.
Sharing Servers With Your Team
When working with a team of developers, you'll likely find yourself in the position of wanting to grant them access to your servers. Let's learn how.
Provision a Load Balancer
A load balancer can help us maintain and manage the incoming traffic we receive, and distribute it between any number of servers.
Manage Your Databases
In this episode, we'll review how to manage our database and database users through Laravel Forge.
Modify Your PHP Settings
When working with PHP projects, you might come to a point where you need to adjust certain configuration values from your PHP settings.
Common PHP Settings and OPcache
In this lesson, we'll review Forge's PHP tab, where we can configure the maximum file upload size, as well as OPcache - a tool for storing compiled PHP code in memory for the purposes of improving performance.
Scheduling Tasks
Forge's scheduler is incredibly powerful. Here, you can configure and schedule any recurring tasks for your server, such as sending weekly reports, backing up your database, or deleting temporary files.
Using Daemons
When you need to have one application or process running in the background constantly, you may configure a daemon through Laravel Forge.
Server Monitoring Tools
Let's take a look at how you can make use of services like Blackfire and Papertrail on your Forge-provisioned server.
Configuring Firewall Rules
If you have multiple servers on the same provider, then you might want to use these servers in a combined network. Forge makes this a breeze!
Using Recipes for Common Tasks
Let's imagine that you're working on a Forge server, and need to install a custom PHP extension. This is where Forge Recipes come into play.
Setup Custom Git Remotes
We've already discussed how to use existing providers like GitHub with Laravel Forge. However, you can also use your own custom providers.
Deployment Notifications
To receive status updates for each new deployment, Laravel Forge offers optional notifications. Here, you can configure email, Slack, Hipchat, or Stride alerts.
Edit Environment Files
Your Laravel application is now live. Let's imagine that, a few months later, you change email or logging providers. When switching to this new service, you'll typically be given a private API authorization key. Rather than hard-coding these keys int...
Queues
Queues allow us to push time-consuming tasks to a background job, where they can be processed by a worker. This allows for a snappier feedback loop for your users.
SSL on Forge
Registering an SSL certificate on your server is usually a tricky and confusing process. But not with Laravel Forge!
Redirect Traffic
Once your domain is configured with Laravel Forge, you can optionally configure a redirect to point non-www traffic to the www version, or of course the other way around. Let's learn how to do this in Forge.
Modify Your Nginx Configuration
Just as you can edit the php.ini file on your server through Laravel Forge, the same is true for your Nginx configuration.
Use the Forge SDK
It will come as no surprise that Forge offers an API to programmatically access all operations that can be accomplished through the browser. This means, if you wish, you can build your own applications and services on top of Forge.
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