A Comprehensive Guide to Deploying Laravel Applications on AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Supervisor

Now your application should use Redis as the cache and queue driver. Initially, I wanted to use Amazon SQS or Simple Queue Service to run queued jobs in Laravel. However, I quickly realized that Laravel Horizon is a lot better when it comes to monitoring and troubleshooting Laravel queues. In the official Laravel docs, they recommend supervisor for running Laravel Horizon. In the next subsection, I'll show you how you can install and configure supervisor using AWS EB platform hooks.

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Stack Overflow

It's like a dumbed-down version of StackOverflow but good enough for this article. The project can be found in the fhsinchy/guide-to-deploying-laravel-on-elastic-beanstalk repository. Make a fork of the repository and clone it to your local system. There are two branches: master and completed. You'll work on the master branch throughout this article.

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Redis

Now that you have a working database set up for your application, its time to set up a functional cache instance using Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache is a service similar to Amazon RDS, but it lets you run in-memory database servers, such as memcached or Redis, managed by AWS. Before creating a new Amazon ElastiCache instance, you'll have to create a new security group.

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Namecheap

Assigning a domain name to your Elastic Beanstalk application is one of the tasks that confuse a lot of beginners. All the official AWS docs usually talk about using Amazon Route 53 for domains, but in this article, I'll show you how to use a third-party domain provider, such as NameCheap, with your AWS EB application.

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memcached

Now that you have a working database set up for your application, its time to set up a functional cache instance using Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache is a service similar to Amazon RDS, but it lets you run in-memory database servers, such as memcached or Redis, managed by AWS. Before creating a new Amazon ElastiCache instance, you'll have to create a new security group.

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6

Mailtrap

Apart from this application key, the question board application is configured to send a confirmation email to new users. If you try to register a new account without configuring a proper mail server, the application will crash. For the sake of simplicity, I'll use MailTrap in this article. Navigate to https://mailtrap.io/ and create a free account. From the default inbox, note down the following configuration parameters:.

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GoDaddy

I've already bought the laravel-on-beanstalk.site domain on NameCheap for this article. If you use some other provider, such as GoDaddy or CloudFlare, the process should be almost the same.

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GitHub Actions

Manually deploying the application every time you've made some changes can be boring. One way to automate this process is by using GitHub Actions. In this section, you'll learn about setting up a very simple workflow to deploy the application automatically whenever you push new code to the master branch.

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This creates a new cron job under /etc/cron.d/renew_ssl_cert_cron that executes the certbot renew --no-self-upgrade command on the 1st day of every month. The certificates are valid for much longer than one month, but renewing them earlier causes no harm. If you do not know how to configure cron jobs, you can use the crontab guru website.

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CloudFlare

I've already bought the laravel-on-beanstalk.site domain on NameCheap for this article. If you use some other provider, such as GoDaddy or CloudFlare, the process should be almost the same.

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Amazon Route 53

Assigning a domain name to your Elastic Beanstalk application is one of the tasks that confuse a lot of beginners. All the official AWS docs usually talk about using Amazon Route 53 for domains, but in this article, I'll show you how to use a third-party domain provider, such as NameCheap, with your AWS EB application.

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Amazon RDS

This article assumes that you have some familiarity with Amazon Web Services and know about the most common ones, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache. Simply knowing what these services are used for will suffice. The article also assumes you've worked with common Laravel features, such as Queues, Cache, and Mail.

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing

I also don't like the fact that it comes with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) enabled by default. ELB is very useful when you're running multiple instances of your application. However, for most of the small to medium-scale Laravel projects, a single instance should be enough in the beginning. Once you start getting a lot of users, you can add load balancing to your application by creating a new environment.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

According to the AWS Elastic Beanstalk overview page,.

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Amazon ElastiCache

Now that you have a working database set up for your application, its time to set up a functional cache instance using Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache is a service similar to Amazon RDS, but it lets you run in-memory database servers, such as memcached or Redis, managed by AWS. Before creating a new Amazon ElastiCache instance, you'll have to create a new security group.

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Amazon EC2

This article assumes that you have some familiarity with Amazon Web Services and know about the most common ones, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache. Simply knowing what these services are used for will suffice. The article also assumes you've worked with common Laravel features, such as Queues, Cache, and Mail.

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Amazon CloudWatch

That's a wrap on this article. I've covered almost all the aspects of deploying a Laravel project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, except for log aggregation. I've already said that every time you deploy a new version of your application, all the files inside the storage directory will be lost, including the log files and user uploads. Although it's possible to stream Laravel logs to Amazon CloudWatch, people often use a third-party tool, such as Papertrail or the ELK Stack. If you want to learn more about log streaming to Amazon CloudWatch, check out the completed branch of the reference project. It contains the necessary configuration inside the .ebextensions/stream_logs_to_cloudwatch.config file. The branch also contains additional platform hooks for installing Node.js and compiling the static assets.

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