Publishing: documentation site using Laravel

Summary

A documentation site blueprint for publishing built with Laravel on Ample. Domain schema: titles (isbn_or_slug, title, author, imprint, published_at): the catalog of titles; editions (title_id, format, version, object_key): editions and versioned files; customer_workspaces (name, license_type, seat_count): institutional or trade customers; customer_assets (workspace_id, title_id, object_key, license_expires_at): licensed files per customer; state_transitions (record_type, from_state, to_state): the allowed state machine. Public information: title catalog and author pages, release schedules, rights and permissions contact. Kept out of scope until handling is reviewed: unreleased manuscripts, royalty statements, customer license keys. Manuscripts and royalty data are confidential; licensed files are authorized per customer workspace. Technical basis verified on Laravel: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true).

Infrastructure requirements

• Compute: verified (Apps run in isolated x86_64 Firecracker microVMs that auto-pause when idle and wake on request; sizes are the priced VM sizes.)
• Postgres: verified (Managed PostgreSQL 16 runs in its own microVM and is auto-provisioned when an app needs a database and no DATABASE_URL is supplied.)
• CDN: verified (The CDN host serves objects from published buckets. It does not front app compute and is not a cache or key-value store.)

Prerequisites

• A Laravel project (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 (auto-provisioned when omitted)
• Bucket credentials from ample bucket create passed as encrypted S3_* environment variables and a published bucket for public assets (CDN_*)
• A review of which publishing data classes may be handled at all; this blueprint models public information only

Exact 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

Steps

1. Model the publishing domain. Create the tables titles, editions, customer_workspaces, customer_assets, state_transitions. The catalog of titles lives in titles; keep the sensitive classes (unreleased manuscripts, royalty statements, customer license keys) out of this schema.
2. Workflow step 1. Model versioned documents with a state machine (draft, review, published) scoped to a product version.
3. Workflow step 2. Publish assets for released versions to the CDN bucket.
4. Workflow step 3. Serve only published versions publicly.
5. Workflow step 4. Deploy and verify the version list and a published page.
6. Deploy. Run the synchronous deploy once and read the result. Re-running with no change is a no-op.

   ample deploy . --name <app-name> --public --env S3_ENDPOINT=... --env S3_REGION=... --env S3_BUCKET=... --env S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... --env S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... --env CDN_PUBLIC_URL=...

7. Verify. Run the pattern self-test(s) from the example (/p/relational-records) and your own acceptance checks for the publishing workflow.

   ample logs <deployment_id> --kind build

Tested examples

• Laravel pattern fixture (tests/deploy-canaries/laravel-patterns): Verified relational records basis for this blueprint.

Success checks

• app responds on its public URL (/ on the live URL, expect ample canary laravel patterns)
• relational-records self-test from the example (/p/relational-records on the live URL, expect see the pattern fixture checks)

Limitations

• The technical basis (relational records on Laravel) was verified with the pattern fixture; the publishing schema and workflow are an original design for this blueprint and were not executed as a separate application.
• No health, financial, privacy or other compliance claim is made. Manuscripts and royalty data are confidential; licensed files are authorized per customer workspace.
• Public content and synthetic examples only until actual data-handling requirements have been reviewed.
• Verified on the php-8.5 template at s-1vcpu-1gb; region, request-duration limits and other sizes are unknown or unverified.
• Managed PostgreSQL 16 only; extensions, connection limits and backup or restore procedures are not verified.
• PutObject and GetObject with path-style addressing are verified; other S3 operations and CDN cache rules are not.

Cost estimate

Estimated 10.00 USD per month (size prices from pricing.toml at build revision a1b8c38919e59cd035ebabaced73cf84ece24371).

• app server x1 s-1vcpu-1gb: 5.00 USD
• managed PostgreSQL database x1 s-1vcpu-1gb: 5.00 USD

Always-on monthly price of the tested sizes; apps and databases auto-pause when idle. Buckets are allocation-priced per quota and not included.

Verification evidence

• canary_run on 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z at revision 118ad1c6d7d23d4c2ce069254bab9ec9d37cd57b-dirty (CLI 118ad1c): 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); the relational records checks passed: a workspace-scoped table, an explicit state machine (draft to review to published) that rejects invalid transitions, and a cross-workspace read that returns nothing (transitions=true isolation=true). The blueprint's Publishing schema and workflow below build on that verified basis and were not separately executed. (expires 2027-03-19T20:36:21Z)

Last verified: 2026-09-20T20:36:21Z

Execution binding

MCP tool ample_deploy (registry mcp:ample_deploy), schema hash 876465fce906da0c observed 2026-09-21T03:19:59.461917+00:00 at revision 49962bcade4f, binding state current, required scopes: servers:write, databases:read, buckets:read.