Laravel Deployment Guide (Production)

Production Laravel needs queue workers, scheduler cron, Horizon (or supervisor), Redis, and staged rollouts. Deploying code without restarting workers is how webhook jobs silently run old code.

Deployment checklist

1. php artisan config:cache && route:cache in CI
2. Run migrations with --force on deploy
3. Restart Horizon/queue workers after deploy
4. Separate staging that mirrors production services
5. Secrets in env — never in repo
6. Health check route for load balancers