Deploying with Laravel Cloud CLI

Setup

composer global require laravel/cloud-cli
cloud auth -n

cloud auth opens a browser. Where that isn't possible, set LARAVEL_CLOUD_TOKEN in the environment — it overrides any saved token and writes nothing to disk. To save a token instead: cloud auth:token --add --token=<token> -n, or pipe it: echo "$TOKEN" | cloud auth:token --add -n.

Commands

Commands follow a CRUD pattern: resource:list, resource:get, resource:create, resource:update, resource:delete.

Available resources: application, environment, instance, database-cluster, database, cache, bucket, domain, websocket-cluster, background-process, command, deployment.

Some resources have additional commands (e.g., domain:verify, database:open, instance:sizes, cache:types). Discover these via cloud -h.

Never hardcode command signatures. Always run cloud <command> -h to discover options at runtime.