The TutsPlus.com site has posted a new tutorial showing you how to make use of the Laravel Forge service to deploy your PHP applications. Laravel Forge provides the configuration and automation tools to deploy your applications to servers on your own accounts (like DigitalOcean or AWS).

Developers love to automate things—for every process between development and production, they are keen to have a script that makes their workflow easier. This is also the case with deployment. The process of pushing the final build and deploying the app should be as easy as pressing a Deploy now button, but that is not what happens most of the time.

[...] Don't let the Laravel brand name mislead you. Apart from Laravel, you can use the service to host WordPress, Symphony, Statamic, or any other web project as long as it's PHP. Personally, I like Laravel Forge for its simplicity and ease of getting used to.

In this tutorial, I am going to take you through the steps to hook Laravel Forge with AWS and explore what it has to offer.

The tutorial starts with an overview of the service and what kind of setup and configuration the resulting servers have (by default). It then covers the various configuration options available and walks you through the process of setting it up with your AWS account. It also includes details about the server management system Forge provides, site management, SSH key addition and PHP/MySQL configuration. A few other helpful hints are also tossed in at the end covering task scheduling, daemons, monitoring and network/firewall configuration.