This gist help you to deploy laravel application from github to your server using ssh

github-ci-cd.yml

name: 🎉 Laravel Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches: [master]
  workflow_dispatch:  # Allow manual triggering

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: 📦 Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: ⚙️ Setup PHP
        uses: shivammathur/setup-php@v2
        with:
          php-version: '8.3'
          extensions: mbstring, xml, ctype, iconv, intl, pdo_mysql, bcmath, zip, curl, fileinfo, tokenizer, dom, json, exif, gd, imagick, mysqli, redis, sodium, pgsql, sqlite3
          coverage: none

      - name: 🧰 Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 'lts/*'
          cache: 'npm'

      - name: ♻️ Cache Composer dependencies
        id: composer-cache
        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: vendor
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-${{ hashFiles('**/composer.lock') }}
          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-composer-

      - name: 🧩 Install Composer dependencies
        run: composer install --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --optimize-autoloader

      - name: Run PHP Code Style (Pint)
        run: vendor/bin/pint

      - name: ♻️ Cache NPM dependencies
        id: npm-cache
        uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: node_modules
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-node-${{ hashFiles('**/package-lock.json') }}
          restore-keys: ${{ runner.os }}-node-

      - name: 📥 Install NPM dependencies
        run: npm ci

      - name: 🔨 Build frontend assets
        run: npm run build

      - name: 🚀 Upload to server via SCP
        uses: appleboy/scp-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
          password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}
          source: ".,!.git,!.github,!node_modules,!tests,!storage/framework/testing,!.env,!.vscode,!.idea"
          target: ${{ secrets.DIR }}
          strip_components: 0

      - name: 🛠️ Run deployment commands
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
          username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
          password: ${{ secrets.PASSWORD }}
          script: |
            cd ${{ secrets.DIR }}
            php artisan down --retry=60
            php artisan migrate --force
            php artisan optimize:clear
            php artisan optimize
            php artisan storage:link
            # Verify deployment succeeded
            if php artisan --version > /dev/null; then
              php artisan up
              echo "Deployment successful!"
            else
              echo "Deployment failed, site remains in maintenance mode"
              exit 1
            fi