Run Artisan Commands on Remote Servers

 Laravel Remote is a package by Spatie that provides a command to execute Artisan commands on a remote server.

Here are some examples of remote commands from the documentation:

 1php artisan remote cache:clear
 2 
 3# Raw ls command on the server
 4php artisan remote ls --raw
 5 
 6# Raw ls with flags
 7php artisan remote --raw "ls -a"
 8 
 9 
10# Defining which host configuration to use
11php artisan remote cache:clear --host=my-other-host

At the heart of the package's configuration, you define hosts for remote servers that you want to interact with. In order to execute a command on a given host, you can use the --host flag for the desired configuration:

 1return [
 2    'hosts' => [
 3        'default' => [
 4            'host' => env('REMOTE_HOST'),
 5            'port' => env('REMOTE_PORT', 22),
 6            'user' => env('REMOTE_USER'),
 7            'path' => env('REMOTE_PATH'),
 8        ],
 9        'example2' => [
10            'host' => env('EXAMPLE2_REMOTE_HOST'),
11            'port' => env('EXAMPLE2_REMOTE_PORT', 22),
12            'user' => env('EXAMPLE2_REMOTE_USER'),
13            'path' => env('EXAMPLE2_REMOTE_PATH'),
14        ],
15    ],
16];

Under the hood, this package uses Spatie's ssh package, a lightweight PHP library to execute commands over SSH.

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