Why developers like Laravel Vapor

What is Laravel Vapor?

It is an auto-scaling, serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS Lambda. Manage your Laravel infrastructure on Vapor and fall in love with the scalability and simplicity of serverless.

Laravel Vapor is a tool in the Serverless / Task Processing category of a tech stack.

Who uses Laravel Vapor?

Companies

17 companies reportedly use Laravel Vapor in their tech stacks, including Build Online, creative.gs, and Trybe Software.

Build Online

creative.gs

Trybe Software

iBiggerPicture

99minutos

Orbit Technology

Grants Nation

Kokoen GmbH

iapotheca

Developers

26 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Laravel Vapor.

My Toolbox

My Languages, Libraries ...

My Stack

scrap-io

api

My Stack

Laravel Vapor Integrations

Laravel

AWS Lambda

Decisions about Laravel Vapor

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Laravel Vapor in their tech stack.

Sujith Kattathara Bhaskaran

Founder at GigsBoard · Jan 25, 2022 | 4 upvotes · 36.8K views

Needs advice

AWS Fargate

Heroku

and

Microsoft Azure

Heroku is unable to handle payment issues arising due to Indian Reserve Bank's decision to stop recurring card payments. I am using the following Heroku services:

Web Dyno
Worker Dyno (Scheduler)
Cron To Go (Queue)
ClearDB (MySQL)
Heroku Redis (Queue Driver)

I have to migrate my Apache/ PHP/ Laravel/ HTML/ CSS/ jQuery/ MySQL application hosted on Heroku to a new provider. My current options visible are:

AWS Fargate
AWS Beanstalk
Quovery
Microsoft Azure
Laravel Vapor
Laravel Forge

Does anyone have any guidance on which of the above options (or any other option not identified above) is recommended for migrating away from Heroku? and why?

Vasilios Zachopoulos

Sep 7, 2021 | 8 upvotes · 171.6K views

Needs advice

DigitalOcean

Heroku

and

Laravel Forge

Hello, I'm currently writing an e-commerce website with Laravel and Laravel Nova (as an admin panel). I want to start deploying the app and created a DigitalOcean account. After some searches about the deployment process, I saw that the setup via DigitalOcean (using Droplets) isn't very easy for beginners. Now I'm not sure how to deploy my app. I am in between Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean (?Apps Platform or Droplets?). I've read that Heroku and Laravel Vapor are a bit expensive. That's why I didn't consider them yet. I'd be happy to read your opinions on that topic!

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Laravel Vapor's Features

Auto-scaling web / queue infrastructure fine tuned for Laravel
Zero-downtime deployments and rollbacks
Environment variable / secret management
Database management, including point-in-time restores and scaling
Redis Cache management, including cluster scaling
Database and cache tunnels, allowing for easy local inspection
Automatic uploading of assets to Cloudfront CDN during deployment
Unique, Vapor assigned vanity URLs for each environment, allowing immediate inspection
Custom application domains
DNS management
Certificate management and renewal
Application, database, and cache metrics
CI friendly

Laravel Vapor Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Laravel Vapor?

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Serverless

Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.

Azure Functions

Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems.

Google Cloud Functions

Construct applications from bite-sized business logic billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, only while your code is running

Cloud Functions for Firebase

Cloud Functions for Firebase lets you create functions that are triggered by Firebase products, such as changes to data in the Realtime Database, uploads to Cloud Storage, new user sign ups via Authentication, and conversion events in Analytics.

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