Crash Course: Continuous Deployment with Semaphore CI
Software is playing an ever bigger role in how companies compete across a broad range of industries. Large organizations are finding that their current approaches to managing software are limiting their ability to respond as quickly as business requires. Continuous delivery helps with this.
Understanding continuous delivery, a now already long-standing buzzword, is not a problem, but implementing it in the right way has been a challenge for quite a few of us, and one we’ll discuss in this post.
Getting Started
We can easily upload our files to a server using an open source desktop client like Filezilla. Those who have used this are aware that this process is cumbersome and irritating as it doesn’t let us automate the deployment process, and we always end up having to upload the whole project, even if we have modified only a part of it. Alternatively, we could do a git pull on the server and our application is instantly in its latest state, but this workflow doesn’t work in today’s world where we have to continuously deliver software to our end users bug-free.
In this article, we will cover the process of deploying a Laravel application on a Digital Ocean server through a continuous delivery pipeline using Semaphore. The source code for the application is present on Github.
Set up a Project on Semaphore
First, create a Semaphore account. After signing up, we see a page to create a new project.
We then have to select the account where our repository is present. If you haven’t connected your source code repository provider with Semaphore, you can do so in this step. Semaphore natively supports Bitbucket and Github.
If you forked the aforementioned repo, you can select it in this step:
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