Zero-Downtime Laravel Deployments with GitHub Actions: A Complete CI/CD Pipeline for Production

Dewald Hugo - May 2, 2026

Most Laravel teams get the first deployment working and then leave the rest manual. This guide builds a complete GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that deploys Laravel without downtime, using a symlink-based release strategy, automated database migrations, queue worker restarts via php artisan reload, and automatic rollback when health checks fail. No Envoyer subscription required.

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Deploy Laravel to Production: The Complete 2026 Guide

Local development and production are different environments with different failure modes. This guide walks through server provisioning, Nginx and PHP-FPM configuration, environment hardening, zero-downtime deployment, and the observability layer you need before real users arrive.