# Forge: Zero-Downtime Deployments

DevFeed: [Forge: Zero-Downtime Deployments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forge-zero-downtime-deployments-3695.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/forge-zero-downtime-deployments>)

Author: James Brooks

Published: 2023-08-17T13:29:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Deployer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployer.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel Forge now natively supports zero-downtime deployments for new sites, removing the need to integrate with Envoyer for single-server deployments. Existing sites cannot enable the feature retroactively, but sites connected to Envoyer can be migrated to Forge. Envoyer remains available for deploying one project across multiple servers, with Forge providing API-token integration, project selection or creation, deployment controls, and a deployment trigger URL for CI environments.

## Source excerpt

Zero-downtime deployments are now native to Laravel Forge, allowing users to avoid even brief milliseconds of downtime. Deployments of sites to multiple servers are available via Envoyer.