Deploy Laravel With Dokku

1. Dokku

Dokku as a special helper that takes your favorite toys and puts them in a big play area so you and your friends can play with them whenever you want.

2. Dokku Installation

System Requirement

Operating Systems
Ubuntu 20.04/22.04
Debain 10+ x64
Min 1GB of system Memory # 3. Install Dokku To install the latest stable version of Dokku, you can run the following shell commands:

wget -NP . https://dokku.com/install/v0.34.4/bootstrap.sh
sudo DOKKU_TAG=v0.34.4 bash bootstrap.sh

4. Administrator to Dokku

Add SSH key

cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | dokku ssh-keys:add admin

5.Database on Dokku

Install MYSQL

To install the mysql plugin, you can run the following shell commands:

sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-mysql.git mysql

6.Deployment

Deploy Laravel App to dokku

Create an app on dokku

dokku apps:create my-app

Create database

dokku mysql:create my-database

Link database to the app

dokku mysql:link my-database my-app

Setup PHP Buildpack

Crate file .buildpacks in your project and paste these code

https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs

Create the Procfile in the project directory

release: php artisan migrate --force && composer dumpautoload web: vendor/bin/heroku-php-apache2 -i php_custom.ini public/

Create the php_ custom.ini in the project directory

Enable php plugin

upload_max_filesize = 3000M 
post_max_size = 3000M 
memory_limit = 256M 
max_execution_time = 300 
max_input_time = 300 
max_input_vars = 10000 
max_file_uploads = 20 
max_upload_filesize = 3000M

Config .ENV to the dokku app

Example: mysql://mysql:2f4629asdf309a7d@dokku-mysql-my-database:3306/my_database
Example: DB_CONNECTION://DB_USERNAME:DB_PASSWORD@DB_HOST:3306/DB_DATABASE

dokku config:set my-app APP_ENV=production 
dokku config:set my-app APP_KEY=yoursecretkeyinserthere 
dokku config:set my-app DB_CONNECTION=mysql 
dokku config:set my-app DB_HOST=dokku-mysql-my-database
dokku config:set my-app DB_DATABASE=my_database
dokku config:set my-app DB_USERNAME=mysql 
dokku config:set my-app DB_PASSWORD=2f4629asdf309a7d

Setup Domain

Buy a domain name on NameCheap
More details baout domains (https://dokku.com/docs/configuration/domains/)

dokku domains:set <app> <domain>

Setup HTTPS

More details about letsencrypt (https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt)
Documents

$ dokku letsencrypt:help
    letsencrypt:active <app>                Verify if letsencrypt is active for an app
    letsencrypt:auto-renew                  Auto-renew all apps secured by letsencrypt if renewal is necessary
    letsencrypt:auto-renew <app>            Auto-renew app if renewal is necessary
    letsencrypt:cleanup <app>               Cleanup stale certificates and configurations
    letsencrypt:cron-job <--add|--remove>   Add or remove an auto-renewal cronjob
    letsencrypt:disable <app>               Disable letsencrypt for an app
    letsencrypt:enable <app>                Enable or renew letsencrypt for an app
    letsencrypt:list                        List letsencrypt-secured apps with certificate expiry
    letsencrypt:revoke <app>                Revoke letsencrypt certificate for app

What we do

sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git 
sudo dokku plugin:update letsencrypt 
dokku letsencrypt:set app-name email 
dokku letsencrypt:enable

Add remote repository

git remote add dokku dokku@your_instance_ip:my-app

Deploy in just one command

git push dokku main

Thanks you so much guysss.

Laravel deployment with dokku