Deploy a New Laravel 12 Starter Kit to Laravel Cloud

Laravel Cloud is a powerful platform for deploying and managing Laravel applications. It simplifies the deployment process, allowing you to focus on building your application rather than managing infrastructure. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to deploy a new Laravel 12 Starter Kit to Laravel Cloud.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, ensure you have the following:

• Laravel 12 Installed: Create a new Laravel 12 project with a Starter Kit (e.g., Breeze, Jetstream).
• Laravel Cloud Account: Sign up for a Laravel Cloud account if you don’t already have one.
• Git Installed: Ensure Git is installed on your local machine.
• Composer Installed: Ensure Composer is installed to manage dependencies.

Step 1: Create a New Laravel 12 Project with a Starter Kit

If you haven’t already created a Laravel 12 project, follow these steps:

Install Laravel 12:

composer global require laravel/installer

You are now prepared to construct a new Laravel application after installing PHP, Composer, and the Laravel installer.

laravel new laravel-12-starter
cd laravel-12-starter

Install a Starter Kit:

Laravel provides several starter kits, such as Breeze and Jetstream. For this example, we'll use Breeze (a lightweight authentication scaffolding).

Install Breeze:

composer require laravel/breeze --dev
php artisan breeze:install
npm install && npm run dev
php artisan migrate

This will set up authentication views, routes, and controllers.

If you want to install Laravel 12 with Bootstrap 5 Authentication, watch this video.

Test Locally:

Run the development server to ensure everything works:

php artisan serve

Visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser to confirm the application is running.

Step 2: Initialize a Git Repository

Laravel Cloud uses Git for deployment. Initialize a Git repository in your project:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/Laravel-Docs/laravel-12-starter.git
git push -u origin main

You may watch Youtube video How to create Github New Repository

Step 3: Connect Your Project to Laravel Cloud

Log in to Laravel Cloud:

Laravel Cloud is a powerful hosting solution designed specifically for Laravel applications. To connect your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud, follow these simple steps. If you haven’t already, log in to your Laravel Cloud account:

You may watch Youtube video How to create account and login to Laravel Cloud

Then create a new project in Laravel Cloud as like the following photo.

Follow the prompts to name your project and select a region.

Photo Credit: Laravel Cloud

Link Your Local Project to Laravel Cloud:

Link your local project to the newly created Laravel Cloud project i.e. 

1. Select Control Provider, 

2. Select repository.

3. Name you Application and

4. Select Region

Then Click “Create Application” button.

Step 4: Deploy Your Application

Create a Database:

Using the Laravel Cloud dashboard, you can create MySQL and Serverless Postgres databases and connect them to the environments of your applications.

Photo Credit: Laravel Cloud

To integrate a Serverless Postgres database into an environment, navigate to the infrastructure canvas dashboard and click on "Add database." Laravel Cloud will then prompt you to either link an existing database or create a new database cluster. When configuring a new cluster, choose "Laravel Serverless Postgres 17" as the database cluster type. Then save and wit for provisioning.

Laravel Cloud also supports advanced features like horizontal scaling, Redis, and database management. Explore the dashboard to unlock the full potential of your Laravel applications!

After that click “Deploy” Button. And with for deployment:
 

After a while it has been finished as follows-
 

Automating Deployments

To make future deployments even faster, you can set up automatic deployments whenever you push to a specific branch (e.g., main). Laravel Cloud integrates seamlessly with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for this purpose.

Connect Your Git Repository:
Link your Git repository to Laravel Cloud in the dashboard.

Enable Automatic Deployments:
Configure automatic deployments for your desired branch.

Conclusion

Deploying a Laravel 12 Starter Kit to Laravel Cloud is quick and easy. In just 5 minutes, you can have your application up and running on a production-ready platform. Laravel Cloud handles the heavy lifting, so you can focus on building amazing applications.

If you encounter any issues or have questions, feel free to reach out in the comments below. 

Nice deploying!