# laravel/homestead

Repository: https://github.com/laravel/homestead
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/homestead
Language: Shell
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-11-06T17:51:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4522, "days_push": 665, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3877, forks 1383 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:27.937419+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: infrastructure-as-code, configuration-management, deployment, http-server, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: vagrant, laravel, virtual-machine, development-environment, php, nginx, mysql, redis, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- laravel/homestead (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.937419+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:45.012408+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/laravel/homestead (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.937419+00:00, sha 348026750e30)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.