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Introducing Anvil: The Mobile Companion for Laravel Forge
Manage your servers, deploy sites, and monitor your infrastructure from anywhere. Anvil is a native mobile app that puts the full power of Laravel Forge in your pocket - with secure API key storage, biometric protection, and one-tap deployments.
Why Anvil?
Laravel Forge is an incredible tool for provisioning and managing servers, but its web interface isn't always convenient when you're on the go. Anvil solves this by providing a dedicated mobile experience designed specifically for server management tasks.
Need to deploy a hotfix while grabbing coffee? Check your server status during a meeting break? Restart a queue worker from the airport? Anvil makes it possible.
What Can You Do With Anvil?
Pretty much everything you'd do in Forge:
Server Management
- View all servers across multiple organizations
- Monitor server status and health
- Reboot servers when needed
- Create and delete servers
Site Management
- Browse all sites on each server
- Manage environment variables
- Edit Nginx configuration
- Connect Git repositories
- View access, error, and application logs
Deployments
- Trigger deployments with one tap
- View deployment history and logs
- Edit deployment scripts
- Monitor quick deploy status
Database Administration
- View and create databases
- Manage database users and permissions
SSL & Security
- View certificate status
- Obtain Let's Encrypt certificates
- Manage SSH keys and firewall rules
- Configure security rules
Background Processes
- Monitor and manage daemons
- Create and configure queue workers
- View scheduled jobs
Infrastructure Monitoring
- Disk, memory, and CPU usage
- Health check configuration
- Alert thresholds
Security First
I know what you're thinking - is it safe to manage production servers from a mobile app? Absolutely.
Anvil takes security seriously:
- Your API key never leaves your device. It's stored securely using iOS Keychain or Android Keystore - the same encryption used by banking apps.
- Direct communication with Forge. Anvil talks directly to the Laravel Forge API over HTTPS. There's no middleman server storing your credentials.
- Biometric protection. Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or a PIN code. The app automatically locks when backgrounded.
Available now for iOS
Anvil is available for iOS and (hopefully) coming soon for Android https://anvilforforge.com
Have questions or feedback? I'd love to hear from you at [email protected].
