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Deployer

Deployer is an open-source deployment tool for PHP projects — specifically designed to automate, standardize, and securely deploy applications like Laravel, Symfony, Magento, WordPress, or any custom PHP apps.


🚀 What Makes Deployer Special?

  • It’s a CLI tool, written in PHP.

  • You define your deployment process in a deploy.php configuration file with clearly defined tasks.

  • It supports zero-downtime deployment using symbolic links (symlinks).

  • It supports multi-environment deployments (e.g., staging, production).


🛠️ Typical Deployer Workflow

Install Deployer via Composer:

composer require deployer/deployer --dev

Generate a config template:

vendor/bin/dep init

Configure deploy.php, e.g., for Laravel:

host('my-server.com')
    ->set('deploy_path', '/var/www/myproject')
    ->set('branch', 'main');

task('deploy', [
    'deploy:prepare',
    'deploy:vendors',
    'artisan:migrate',
    'deploy:publish',
]);

Deploy your app:

vendor/bin/dep deploy production

🔁 What Happens Under the Hood?

Deployer:

  • Connects to the server via SSH

  • Clones your Git repo into a new release directory

  • Installs Composer dependencies

  • Runs custom tasks (e.g., php artisan migrate)

  • Updates the symlink to point to the new release (current)

  • Removes old releases if configured


📦 Benefits of Deployer

Benefit Description
🚀 Fast & scriptable Fully CLI-driven
🔁 Rollback support Instantly roll back to previous working release
⚙️ Highly customizable Define your own tasks, hooks, conditions
🧩 Presets available Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, etc.
🔐 Secure by default Uses SSH — no FTP needed

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