Getting Started with Laravel Cloud in 5 Minutes

Let me introduce you to Laravel cloud. The absolute fastest way to ship and scale your Laravel applications. So what is cloud? Cloud is managed infrastructure for your batteriesinccluded full stack applications that's built and maintained by the same team that built Laravel. So in one platform you have everything that you need to ship applications, build projects and start businesses at scale. You have app and server clusters, databases, cues, cache, storage, realtime events, logs and more. Getting started is as simple as connecting your preferred git provider and within one click you're ready to ship. And if you're just trying things out, and we'll touch on this a little bit more later, but you can set a spending limit, even something like $5, so you're comfortable knowing exactly what you'll be spending. Now, the real value of Laravel Cloud comes in everything that you have right here. I'm going to go ahead and hide myself so you can see more of the page. So I selected what repo I want to ship and now I can set up every resource, every piece of the puzzle that my application actually needs. Whether that's a database, a cache, a bucket, or even websockets. Laravel cloud is managed compute at the scale that you or your application actually needs, including autoscaling options. So that way your application can be ready and responsible for serving the incoming web traffic at the scale that it needs. You have full visibility into your deployments, including what's actually happening during certain phases of the deployment, any logs for your application, and everything that you might expect when it comes to the safety and security of your application. For example, you can configure everything for your edge network settings, whether that be firewall, what's actually happening for your responses or the cache that we configure on edge for each deployment. Here's a real quick look at a live application that I've configured and deployed in Laravel Cloud. And as you can see here in this canvas, it includes everything that this full stack application needs to be able to ship. This means a MySQL database, an app cluster with compute that can autoscale if needed, or I can set a fixed price because that's all my application actually needs. I can be prepared down the line if and when I need an actual cache for this application. And I have a bucket already set up, which is S3 compatible storage. And I already have websockets connected to this application which is a hosted instance of Laravel Reverb for real-time connections. Finally, a managed Q cluster which is separate from the app cluster and can scale to zero when idle. Now, you might be thinking, I'm not just hosting a hobby project, right? You're not just wanting to get in and try it out. The good news is that cloud is meant to grow and scale with you regardless of where you're starting. So, yes, you can choose fixed compute for when your app has predictable need, which also comes with predictable pricing capped at $5 a month, for example. I know that's all I'm going to be spending on this particular app cluster. Or you can turn on autoscaling, which we've mentioned, which enables you to have that flexibility with how your app performs. So, when your app does need to handle more demand, you'll be ready for it. The great part is even when your app does need to be more flexible and you might not have as much predictable pricing, you can enable spending limits. So, I can be alerted when my limit reaches a certain amount or I can absolutely never spend more than I agree to. Now, let me talk about the other side of the coin. There's some apps or hobby projects that you might have that are still in the MVP, the getting started phase, or maybe there's an internal tool or project that your team is testing out. So, it would be nice if you could make those kinds of projects even more predictable when it comes to billing, right? Good news, you can. Everything that makes up the engine of your application, whether it's the app cluster or a database and even cache, can be scaled to zero. You can think of this as every piece of your application is sleeping when it's not in use and it's awake when it is. And for those who are familiar with something like this, you might be thinking, well, yeah, what about cold starts? I don't think it's worth it. So, Laravel cloud only takes 500 milliseconds or less to wake up your application and its resources from sleep. So in milliseconds, it can scale your application down to zero or in milliseconds when it's ready to go again, it can scale it right back up. Now every application that you ship can not only be clear with how much you would pay if it was always on that set predictable amount for each app cluster or resource instance, but now you never pay a scent when your app sleeps, which means you pay less overall, and you ship efficient apps faster. And while we already touched on spending limits, you have full visibility into monthly usage for all your applications and their resources, which just means for those smaller projects, you get more visibility into how much you're saving when they scale to zero. Lastly, cloud works where you work. You can manage everything that we talked about and more with that cloud dashboard or cloud also has a CLI and API for you. So that means whether you're shipping and managing your projects from a laptop, your phone, or from a terminal, you, your agents, your CI workflow, and everything in between can interact with your project within Laravel Cloud. So that's Laravel Cloud. Well, that's a 5minute introduction. There's so much more that you can talk about that Laravel Cloud has to offer. We actually have a full video right up here that goes into great length about what Laravel Cloud has to offer for you and your application. All the nuts and bolts, if you will. But what we want you to do is never to have to think about managing your application again. So every part of it can live, scale, and succeed here at Laravel Cloud. So what are you waiting for? Just start shipping with Laravel Cloud.