Guides for people who ship Laravel
By Andrea Pollastri · Updated
Practical, opinionated and free: everything we know about deploying Laravel on Ubuntu, hardening PHP apps, CI/CD, the wider Laravel ecosystem, AI-assisted development and building a developer stack you actually own. Written by the author of Cipi, the open-source Laravel deploy CLI.
Deploy Laravel on an Ubuntu VPS
The full production stack explained, every manual step, the one-command alternative, and the operational habits that keep servers healthy.
Read the guide → cybersecurity · PHP & LaravelThe Laravel security checklist
Server hardening, application settings, dependency scanning, secrets and incident response — the boring, high-impact work first.
Read the guide → Laravel · field guideThe Laravel ecosystem in 2026
Octane, Horizon, Reverb, Livewire, Inertia, Filament, Pest — what each piece does and when it is actually worth adopting.
Read the guide → CI/CD · GitCI/CD & Git workflow for Laravel
A Git workflow that scales down to one developer, a copy-paste GitHub Actions pipeline, and zero-downtime deployment patterns.
Read the guide → AI · specs · MCPSpec-driven development with AI agents
Specs over vibes, MCP as the tool standard, guardrails that keep agent code safe, and a concrete spec-to-production loop.
Read the guide → stacks · utilitiesThe self-hosted developer stack
Deploys, error tracking, analytics, storage, newsletters and security scanning — a stack you own for the price of a VPS.
Read the guide →Every guide is hands-on and vendor-honest: where a SaaS is the better choice, we say so. Where a free,
self-hosted tool covers the job, we show the exact commands — usually starting with
wget -O - https://cipi.sh/setup.sh | bash. Evaluating deployment tools instead? Start
with the best Laravel Forge alternatives in
2026 or the full comparison hub.
