Forge has changed the game. Taylor Otwell did an amazing job of making it super easy to put an app online. I want to show you how to use this with AWS and CodeDeploy
. Digital Ocean is an amazing service, but sometimes, you need to use AWS as per the customer requirement, or more importantly, you want to benefit from a lot of the features that it provides.
Second, I want to show CodeDeploy
since it can deploy Artifacts. The killer feature I know is that what is working on Travis CI will work on the server, since I do not need to do another Git pull, composer install, Gulp, and so on. But I am just copying over a zipped artifact of the application in a passing state.
In the steps that follow, we are going to perform the following: