---
title: "Launching Laravel Bytes"
description: "We've launched Laravel Bytes, the place for all things Laravel on Fly!"
---

# Launching Laravel Bytes

[Annie Ruygt](https://annieruygtillustration.com/)

Fly runs apps close to users by taking Docker images and transmogrifying them into Firecracker micro-vms, running on our hardware around the world. If you want to ship a Laravel app, [try it out on Fly.io](https://docs.fly.io/laravel). It takes just a couple of minutes.

Today we’re launching [Laravel Bytes](https://fly.io/laravel-bytes/) - our new home for anything Laravel.

We’re excited to support deploying Laravel across the globe - and we have lots to talk about!

We’ve already made it [easy to run Laravel](https://docs.fly.io/laravel) on Fly, but with the possibilities unlocked by global deployment, there’s still plenty more to consider. In future posts, we’ll talk about the considerations that come with a global user base.

Finally, we’ll have lots of tips, tricks, strategies, how-to’s, and more (especially about [Livewire](https://laravel-livewire.com/) - we love real-time apps)!

Keep a lookout for new stuff in Laravel Bytes!

## Getting Started with Laravel

Laravel is supported in the `fly launch` command, so the easiest way to get a feel for running Laravel is in our docs for [Deploying a Laravel Application](https://docs.fly.io/laravel).

The quickest version of that boils down to this (assuming the [fly command is installed](https://docs.fly.io/flyctl/install)):

```
# Head into a Laravel app
cd ~/some-laravel-app

# Create and launch a Laravel app on Fly
fly launch
```

For something a bit more in depth, we’ve also written up a more complete [guide on running a Laravel apps on Fly](https://fly.io/laravel-bytes/full-stack-laravel/) with Redis, MySQL, queues workers, and cron tasks.

## Launch a Laravel app, super quick

It’ll take just a few minutes to get Laravel running on Fly!

[Try Fly for free →](https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/laravel/)