Why this lesson matters

Understand deployment checklist and apply it in a small Laravel feature. Production delivery depends on environment-specific configuration, cached framework metadata, durable queues, migrations and repeatable commands executed in a controlled order.

How to reason about it

  • For Deployment Checklist, the outcome to verify is: Run production commands through a repeatable, reviewable deployment process.
  • In Deployment Checklist, keep this failure controlled: Running ad-hoc Artisan commands on one server without release evidence creates configuration drift and unreliable rollback.
  • Deployment Checklist practice target: Write a deployment checklist that validates configuration, runs migrations, refreshes caches, restarts queue workers and performs a smoke request.

Practical walkthrough

In the Deployment Checklist walkthrough: Run production commands through a repeatable, reviewable deployment process.

deploy.shbash
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan migrate --force
php artisan queue:restart

Practice it yourself

Practice

Deployment Checklist exercise

Write a deployment checklist that validates configuration, runs migrations, refreshes caches, restarts queue workers and performs a smoke request.

  • Record the expected result before execution
  • Test one valid path and one lesson-specific failure path
  • Explain in two lines which boundary owns the decision

Summary