Laravel Forge "Zero-Downtime" Deployment

deploy-script.sh

cd /home/forge

PROJECT_NAME="site-name"
PROJECT_REPO="git@github.com:github-username/repo-name.git"
RELEASES_KEPT=3
RELEASE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")

# Reload PHP-FPM.
( flock -w 10 9 || exit 1
    echo 'Restarting FPM...'; sudo -S service $FORGE_PHP_FPM reload ) 9>/tmp/fpmlock

# Create our master directory for .env and storage if they don't exist.
# This should only need to be done the first time we deploy with this method.
# We will symlink to these in each release to avoid having to copy them each time.
if [ ! -d $PROJECT_NAME"-data" ]
then
  mkdir $PROJECT_NAME"-data"
  cp $PROJECT_NAME"/.env" $PROJECT_NAME"-data/.env"
  cp -r $PROJECT_NAME"/storage" $PROJECT_NAME"-data/storage"
fi

# Create a project-name-releases directory if it does not exist.
if [ ! -d $PROJECT_NAME"-releases" ]
then
  mkdir $PROJECT_NAME"-releases"
fi

# Create our new release.
cd $PROJECT_NAME"-releases"
git clone -b $FORGE_SITE_BRANCH --depth 1 $PROJECT_REPO $RELEASE

cd $RELEASE

# Install dependencies
$FORGE_COMPOSER install --no-interaction --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader

# Symlink our .env and storage.
ln -sfn "../../"$PROJECT_NAME"-data/.env" .env
rm -rf storage
ln -sfn "../../"$PROJECT_NAME"-data/storage" storage

if [ -f artisan ]
then
  $FORGE_COMPOSER update-permissions # Seed any new permissions
  $FORGE_PHP artisan route:cache
  $FORGE_PHP artisan view:cache
  $FORGE_PHP artisan event:cache
  $FORGE_PHP artisan horizon:terminate
  $FORGE_PHP artisan storage:link
  $FORGE_PHP artisan config:cache
fi

# Compile our assets.
npm install
npm run build

# Now that our scripts are compiled, we can safely remove the node directory.
rm -rf node_modules

# Clean up old releases.
cd ..
rm -rf `ls -1 | sort -r | tail -n +$((RELEASES_KEPT+1))`

cd /home/forge

# Remove the project directory if it exists.
if [ -d $PROJECT_NAME ]
then
  rm -rf $PROJECT_NAME
fi

# Re-link our new release.
ln -sfn $PROJECT_NAME"-releases/"$RELEASE $PROJECT_NAME

Replace "github-username" and "repo-name" with the correct path to the repo before running deployments with this script.

Replace "site-name" with your app's domain name.

Also modify the artisan commands that are run depending on the project's needs and requirements.