3. Make changes and deploy them#

3.1. Make a change#

We’ll make a simple change to the application code. Find the file resources/views/welcome.blade.php, which is responsible for the Laravel welcome page, and adjust the line controlling the background colour, for example:

<!-- Styles -->
<style>
    html, body {
        background-color: black;
        color: #636b6f;

and reload the page to check that it has taken effect.

3.2. Deploy to the Divio Cloud#

3.2.1. Push your code#

To deploy your changes to the Test server, push your changes, and run a deployment command:

git add .
git commit -m "Change background colour of welcome page"
git push origin <branch-name>

On the application Dashboard, you will see that your new commit is listed as 1 Undeployed commit. You can deploy this using the Control Panel, or by running:

divio app deploy

When it has finished deploying, you should check the Test server to see that all is as expected. Once you’re satisfied that it works correctly, you can deploy the Live server too:

divio app deploy live

3.2.2. Push the database#

Your cloud database hasn’t yet been migrated, unlike the local database (which you migrated when you ran the divio/setup.php set-up script). One very useful function of the Divio CLI is ability to push and pull your database and media storage to and from the cloud environments. Push the database with:

divio app push db

This will push the local database to the cloud Test environment. (divio app push db live will do the same for the Live environment.)

Similarly, you can push/pull media files, and also specify which cloud environment. See the local commands cheatsheet. A common use-case is to pull live content into the development environment, so that you can test new development with real data.


This is about a simple change as its possible to make and deploy, but it helps illustrate the workflow and the development/deployment cycle. In the next section we’ll work through some more sophisticated steps.