Host Reporting Dashboard with Laravel: Relational Workflow State

Summary

Deploy a reporting dashboard built with Laravel on Ample using the transactional workflows pattern. Compute runs the app in an isolated microVM behind a public HTTPS URL, a managed PostgreSQL 16 database is auto-provisioned and injected as DATABASE_URL. Verified on Laravel: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected). Not separately tested: your domain records, validation rules and concurrency policy; treat the reporting dashboard-specific behavior as your application code.

Resource Requirements

• Primitive: compute
• Primitive: postgres

Infrastructure Requirements

1. Compute: Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.
2. Postgres: Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.

Prerequisites

• A Laravel project that builds and starts with the documented commands (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template)
• A PostgreSQL driver reading DATABASE_URL at runtime (auto-provisioned when omitted, or supplied with --env)
• An Ample account token with servers:write, databases:read

Tested Configuration

• Template: php-8.5
• Runtime: php
• Size: s-1vcpu-1gb
• Install: composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --no-interaction --no-progress --optimize-autoloader
• Start: frankenphp php-server --listen :$PORT --root public

Workflow Steps

1. Build and start: composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template. The server must bind 0.0.0.0 on PORT.
2. Implement the pattern on PostgreSQL: The fixture's module implements transactional workflows: an optimistic version check and an event row written in the same transaction, a stale update rejected, and a history query over the application-owned events (history=2 conflict=rejected). Copy the approach into your schema; keep migrations idempotent and run them with --release-command.
3. Deploy: Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result (exit 0 live, 1 failed, 2 blocked). Re-running with no change is a no-op.
   • Command: ample deploy . --name --public
4. Verify: Fetch the live URL and the pattern self-test route(s) (/p/transactional-workflows) from the example; then run your own checks. On failure read ample logs --kind build then --kind runtime.
   • Command: ample logs --kind build

Examples

• Laravel pattern fixture: Multi-pattern Laravel app whose transactional workflows module was checked live; the module is under tests/deploy-canaries/_pattern-modules.

Limitations

• Verified on the php-8.5 template at s-1vcpu-1gb with the example fixture; other sizes, templates and Laravel major versions are not verified.
• The reporting dashboard itself (your domain records, validation rules and concurrency policy) is application code and was not separately tested; the pattern checks are what was verified.
• Region, compliance attestations and request-duration limits are unknown and not claimed.
• Apps auto-pause when idle and wake on the next request; always-on is an operator setting, not a plan feature.
• Managed PostgreSQL 16 only; extensions, connection limits and backup or restore procedures are not verified; apps and their databases are placed together.

Success Checks

1. App responds on its public URL: kind: http_get, path: /, expect: ample canary laravel patterns
2. Transactional-workflows self-test: kind: http_get, path: /p/transactional-workflows, expect: tx=ok history=2 conflict=rejected

Evidence Summary

1. Canary Run: Laravel pattern fixture deployed on Ample (composer install --no-dev from composer.lock, then FrankenPHP serving public/ (php-server with the index.php fallback) reading PORT on the php-8.5 template); checks passed for transactional-workflows and configuration-secrets.
   • Observed At: 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z

Cost Estimate

• Currency: USD
• Monthly Amount: 10.0
• Basis: size prices from pricing.toml (loaded by the API) at build revision 1ac5595375130d45290090e82ed0f554ccd45405-dirty
  • Components:
    • App server: size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthly amount: 5.0
    • Managed PostgreSQL database: size: s-1vcpu-1gb, quantity: 1.0, monthly amount: 5.0
• Note: Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

Next Actions

• Browse the catalog index: path - /v1/catalog
• Search published recipes by intent, stack and constraints: path - /v1/catalog/search
• Prepare a side-effect-free deployment plan for an authorized project: path - /v1/catalog/plan
• Read the existing agent authentication setup: path - /mcp/setup
• Browse Reporting dashboard: path - /v1/catalog/nodes/workload%3Areporting-dashboard
• Browse Laravel: path - /v1/catalog/nodes/stack%3Aframework-laravel
• Browse Transactional workflows: path - /v1/catalog/nodes/pattern%3Atransactional-workflows
• Browse Deploy web app: path - /v1/catalog/nodes/intent%3Adeploy-web-app