I encountered issue during deployment

[EzekielKolawole]

I encountered issue during deployment

[zaghadon]

Have you fixed this? Do you still want help? I'm available at the moment and I can help you navigate Upgrading to 7.x

[EzekielKolawole]

@zaghadon I had to use another alternative for deployment.

Maybe you can put me through how to use this deployer package

[zaghadon]

Deployer is a deployment package that helps you to connect your remote servers to your local project.

In this tutorial, Deployer version 5x-6x was used, but the current evolution of deployer is at 7.x and they're many breaking changes.

Also this tutorial was mainly about CI/CD for Laravel project, which isn't all about Deployer. CI CD is a DevOps terms that summarizes the system of Continuous Development and Integration. That is, Developers like you can now just write code, and push it and everything would be handled automatically to the production or staging server.
During CICD you don't want to cause Software Entropy for your live project so therefore you must incorporate unit testing to make sure no breaking changes makes it to production and disrupt your application working.

So in this tutorial, there have shown you how you can use GitHub Action which is just like any other CICD platforms such as TravisCI, CircleCI etc, that works directly on your GitHub repository.

Deployer can help you connect to the remote server, using ssh, provision the server and the desired softwares needed to deploy your project.
Then using GitHub Action, you can test and build your code and assets on GitHub servers, put the built code in an artifact, download it, and start deployer to deploy on your server.

You can also deploy directly from your localhost in which case you'll have to set tasks to build your assets on your localhost or on the remote server.

Deployer is programmable, giving you the super power to dictate exactly how you want your deployment and any tasks you want done before or after deployment.

You can find more details about Deployer and the documentation here 👉 https://deployer.org/

I recently did a successful deployment and I had to do alot of changes on this tutorial, maybe I'll have to document it and publish an updated version of this tutorial.

I'll post a link here as soon as I do this.