Deploy Laravel to OVHcloud

Steps

1. 1

   Create a OVHcloud API token

   Create API keys on OVHcloud's token page: ca.api.ovh.com/createToken for an OVHcloud Canada account, eu.api.ovh.com/createToken otherwise. Railyard needs the application key, application secret, consumer key and your Public Cloud project ID, joined by colons, with :ovh-ca at the end for a Canadian account. Paste it into Railyard and tick Save it to the team, so it's reused for every server after this one.

2. 2

   Add a OVHcloud server

   In Railyard, open Servers, then Add a server, then Create on your cloud, and pick OVHcloud, a region and a size. Railyard preselects d2-2 (1 vCPU, 2 GB of memory). It creates the server in your OVHcloud account and installs Docker, Caddy and its agent in about two minutes.

3. 3

   Deploy your Laravel repository

   Paste the GitHub link. Railyard reads the repository, detects Laravel and fills in the build, the port, the release command, workers and MySQL or Postgres.

4. 4

   Go live on HTTPS

   Railyard builds on a separate build server, runs the release command, health-checks the new version and moves traffic only when it answers. Add your domain and the certificate is issued and renewed for you.

What Railyard sets up for Laravel

• php artisan migrate --force runs before every release.
• DB_HOST, DB_DATABASE and the other database variables from .env.example are wired to the provisioned database.
• APP_KEY is generated in Laravel's base64 format.
• php artisan queue:work is offered as a worker, or horizon when laravel/horizon is installed.
• APP_URL is set to the app's address.

OVHcloud regions

Beauharnois keeps your data in Québec, with a provider whose parent company is French rather than American.

• Beauharnois, Québec
• Gravelines
• Strasbourg
• Frankfurt
• London
• Warsaw
• Vint Hill
• Hillsboro
• Singapore
• Sydney

Questions