Laravel Forge is a commercial service to provision, deploy and configure Laravel applications in the cloud. The tool is linked to multiple cloud providers such as Digital Ocean, Linode, AWS. The service allow you to install Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and all of the other goodies you need on the cloud of your choice. No more out-dated PHP installations.
Forge CLI is a tool that have been released yesterday to github by Marcel Pociot as part of the hacktoberfest global event. to use it :
Use forge login to create a Forge API Token that will be used for future API requests.
To link an existing project with Laravel Forge, call forge init. This command can also create a new site on Forge if you want.
Forge CLI is not intended to become a standard Forge CLI tool, as Marcel commented to a pull request about adding web hooks :
My intention was to create something similar to how Laravel Vapor allows you to manage (and link) your applications and your application configuration from the CLI.
There are more interesting commands that might be added in the future, but since just the first release we just wanted to share with you the concept maybe you find it useful since there are more than 300k applications managed today by Forge. Released under an MIT license. More information at https://github.com/beyondcode/forge-cli
