Envoy common features with Slack notifications. See http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/envoy for more info.

Envoy.blade.php

@servers(['web' => 'username@domain.com -p 1234'])

@setup
    $project_name = 'Project Name';
    $project_url = 'http://project-domain.com/';
    $project_root = '/www/project/web';

    $slack_hook = 'your-slack-hook-url';
    $slack_channel = '#channel';
@endsetup

@task('put_app_up', ['on' => 'web'])
    cd {{ $project_root }}

    php artisan up
@endtask

@task('put_app_down', ['on' => 'web'])
    cd {{ $project_root }}

    php artisan down
@endtask

@task('pull_latest_changes', ['on' => 'web'])
    cd {{ $project_root }}

    git pull origin
@endtask

@task('install_dependencies', ['on' => 'web'])
    cd {{ $project_root }}

    composer install  --prefer-source --no-interaction --no-dev
@endtask

@task('clear_cache', ['on' => 'web'])
    cd {{ $project_root }}

    php artisan cache:clear
@endtask

@macro('update')
    put_app_down
    pull_latest_changes
    install_dependencies
    put_app_up
@endmacro

@after
    @slack($slack_hook, $slack_channel, "Envoy task $task ran on <$project_url|[$project_name]>")
@endafter

@finished worked for us