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.

On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new post that gives you a crash course in using Semaphore, a "continuous delivery pipeline" service, and how to use it to deploy your PHP applications.

Understanding continuous delivery, a now already long-standing buzzword, is not a problem, but implementing it in the right way has been a challenge for quite a few of us, and one we’ll discuss in this post.

[...] In this article, we will cover the process of deploying a Laravel application on a Digital Ocean server through a continuous delivery pipeline using Semaphore. The source code for the application is present on Github.

They walk you through each step of the way (complete with screenshots) to:

• Create a Semaphore account, linking it to GitHub
• Creating a new Project
• Setting up the plan for the deployment
• Performing the first build
• Parallelizing the builds

With the project all set up the tutorial then starts on the continuous deployment changes, adding in a "Deployment" step and making a first push.