Packer templates for deploying Laravel apps on Digital Ocean

These are my Packer templates for deploying Laravel applications on Digital Ocean infrastructure.

Installs:

• PHP 8
• Nginx
• MySQL
• Redis
• Memcached
• Postfix
• Certbot
• Supervisor

Configuration

Create a variables.json file with your Digital Ocean API token:

{
  "do_api_token": "YOUR_DIGITAL_OCEAN_API_TOKEN_HERE"
}

Usage

To build a Digital Ocean droplet snapshot in nyc3:

brew upgrade packer
packer plugins install github.com/digitalocean/digitalocean
packer validate -var-file=variables.json laravel-lemp/template.json
packer build -var-file=variables.json laravel-lemp/template.json

Then, create a droplet from the resulting snapshot.

More information

Links and guides that helped inform this setup:

• How To Create DigitalOcean Snapshots Using Packer on Ubuntu
• 1-Click Droplet Packer Build templates
• Digital Ocean Packer builder plugin

Author

Chris Hardie