laravel/homestead resource

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Laravel Homestead is an official pre-packaged Vagrant box providing a ready-made Laravel development environment with PHP, Nginx, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and more, without installing server software locally. This repo contains the Homestead application, a wrapper around Vagrant, paired with the Settler project that builds the base box.

Use cases

• set up a local PHP development environment without installing PHP or a web server
• create a disposable virtual machine for Laravel development
• run Nginx, MySQL, Postgres, and Redis in a preconfigured dev box
• avoid polluting my operating system with server software
• quickly destroy and recreate a broken development environment
• standardize the dev environment across Windows, Mac, and Linux

When to choose

• you develop Laravel or PHP apps and want an official, batteries-included Vagrant environment
• you want a disposable, reproducible dev VM across Windows, macOS, or Linux
• you prefer not to install PHP, Nginx, and databases directly on your host machine

When to avoid

• you prefer Docker or Laravel Sail for containerized local development
• your project is not PHP/Laravel-based
• you need a production hosting solution rather than a local dev environment
• you don't want the overhead of a full virtual machine

Facets

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infrastructure-as-code configuration-management deployment http-server developer-tools web-development developer-tools self-hosted windows cross-platform vagrant laravel virtual-machine development-environment php nginx mysql redis linux macos docker

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