My goal is to setup a GNU/Linux VM with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, PHP8, Nginx and MySql to serve a Laravel 8 Application. For the Web Server I’m going to use Nginx so I will need php-fpm.
There are some ways to achieve that, you could consider to use:
For my side projects usually I use DigitalOcean Droplets because:
For my work projects, I usually choose “managed” solutions.
A thought about automation. I’m a fan of “automate everything”. But before to automate a process, or a setup, or a workflow, I think we need to figure out what’s going on under the hood.
#nginx #ubuntu #laravel #php