The TutsPlus.com site has a new tutorial posted in their "CMS" section showing you how to use Deployer to deploy your sites. Deployer is a PHP-based deployment tool that makes it simpler to automate steps and create repeatable deployment methods.

Automated workflow for deployment is a great tool that every software development team must have. The release process, when it is fast, secure and fault tolerant, can save time for developing more great things. And the good news that there are many great tools for creating an automated release cycle.

In this article, I'm going to introduce you a deployment tool called Deployer. I like to use it because it is written in PHP, is easy to set up, and has many handy features to integrate the deployment process into your team's workflow.

They start with a brief overview of what a deployment process is and how to get the SSH certificates installed for the cross-server communication. The tutorial then shows how to get Deployer installed and create your first deployment script using a PHP configuration file and several built-in commands. They show the directory structure created on the server by the deployment, rollback functionality and how to define a custom task. The article wraps up with a mention of third-party recipes that can be added on to add more functionality (like the Slack plugin for deployment notifications).

The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a tutorial showing you how to use Laravel Envoyer or Deployer with SemaphoreCI and popular continuous integration service.

Test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery are quite widespread in the community now. This brought to life multiple services trying to make the process more enjoyable and less overwhelming for developers, so they can focus on delivering software instead of building/configuring tools to do that. One of those services is SemaphoreCI.

In this article, we’re going to cover how to use our own deploy scripts and tools to continue the deployment process after a successful test.

They then show you how to create the Deployer configuration file to make the deployment to the remote Digital Ocean servers of a Laravel-based application. Most of the steps are in copying the local files up to the remote server as a "staging" environment. He then hops back over to the SemaphoreCI service to create the deployment plan for the project using the "deployer.phar" command line tool, linking it to the push of new code. They then move to the same process just defined via the Laravel Envoyer tool and a similar command line call.

In a new post to their blog the Deployer project (a PHP-based deployment tool) has shared a quick tutorial about deploying Laravel applications using the tool and just a few simple commands.

Apparently you already have some Laravel application and some server or shared hosting. Now you need to automate the process of deployment. Deployer will helps you in this as it ships with some ready to use recipes for Laravel based application.

They start with the details about installing the tool then share the single "dep init" command to create the deployment configuration needed to deploy a default Laravel application. There's a few modifications you'll need to make for your own project (like repository location, server information and the path to your SSH key) but that's basically it. The "dep deploy" command can then be used to push the release to the remote server in a "current" directly ready and waiting for your web server to serve up.

The SitePoint PHP blog has a tutorial showing you how to deploy your applications with Deployer, a simple deployment tool that aims to make it as easy as a single command to release you application to production.

Everybody tries to automate their development process, testing, code formatting, system checks, etc. This is also the case for deploying our applications or pushing a new version to the production server. Some of us do this manually by uploading the code using an FTP client, others prefer Phing, and Laravel users will prefer Envoyer for this process. In this article, I’m going to introduce you to Deployer – a deployment tool for PHP.

To introduce you to the tool they walk you through the deployment of a demo application, a simple tool that was used in a previous tutorial to connect to the 500px API. They help you get it installed and start in on some of the basic configuration:

• setting up the target servers and environments
• using SSH authentication
• defining basic tasks
• making use of "zero downtime" releases
• using some common built-in tasks

Finally, they link to a recipes section on the Deployer website that gives you more advanced and wider reaching examples.