Direct answer
What is Laravel Forge?
- Short definition
-
Laravel Forge is a server provisioning and management tool for PHP and Laravel applications. It creates and configures cloud servers with Nginx, PHP-FPM, databases, SSL certificates, deploy scripts, queues, and scheduled tasks so teams can host Laravel apps without manually building the server from scratch.
- Why it matters
- Forge reduces infrastructure setup time and gives Laravel teams a consistent place to manage servers, sites, SSL, deployments, workers, and environment settings.
How teams use Laravel Forge
Use this term when you need to describe the practical role it plays in a software project.
Common use cases
- Provisioning DigitalOcean, AWS, or other cloud servers
- Configuring Nginx and PHP versions
- Installing SSL certificates
- Deploying from Git
- Managing queues, daemons, and scheduled tasks
Examples of Laravel Forge
These examples show the term in everyday product, platform, or operations work.
Real-world examples
- A Laravel app is deployed from GitHub to a Forge-managed server
- Let's Encrypt SSL renews automatically
- A queue worker is restarted after deployment