Run Laravel artisan migrate after each deploy

Question

Hi. I have a question related to Azure AppServices.
We are deploying a Laravel app using "git push" from local. I'm used to manage Linux VPS but I'm a bit lost when it comes to AppServices.

I want to run a command (php artisan migrate) each time the app is deployed immediately after the git push and before the site is online again. The command updates the DB or does nothing depending if there are pending schema changes.

Where should I configure this command? I was reading about Kudu deployment hooks but I'm not sure if it's the right choice. It looks overcomplicated for what I have to do.

Should I use Kudu deployment hooks or should I use the Azure Startup command, or what should I use?

Answer 1

@Javier "Ciberman" Mora , Apologies for the delay from over the weekend.

I would suggest you leverage Azure Startup (under ‘Configuration’ in the portal target, Startup command.
The easiest way to run database migrations with your database is directly from within the App Service container.

You may check this tutorial sample application:
Tutorial: Build a PHP (Laravel) and MySQL Flexible Server app on Azure App Service

As a side note, these commands or scripts are executed after the built-in Docker container is started, but before your application code is started.

For more info, see:

PHP 8 (NGINX) and Laravel Migrations

Configure handler mappings

Answer 2

Hello. I have configured an startup script here:

This is my startup script:

root@be4e0b8db42b:/home# cat startup-farmaticapproxdevel-apache.sh   
#nginx start  
cp /home/site/mpm_worker.conf /etc/apache2/mods-avalilable/mpm_worker.conf  
cp /home/site/opcache-recommended.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/opcache-recommended.ini  
service apache2 restart  
  
# Deploy our amazing Laravel App  
cd /home/site/wwwroot/ && ./deploy-azure.sh  
  
# Installing cron  
apt-get update -qq && apt-get install cron -yqq  
(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/site/wwwroot/artisan schedule:run 2>&1")|crontab  
service cron start  

How can I see the logs generated by my ./deploy-azure.sh script? I need to know if migrations have run succesfully or if there is any error or warning during deployment.