Spinning up container to run a one time task

[chrispage1]

Hi! I'm having a go at using kamal to run PHP Laravel deployments and so far so good. I've successfully got a deployment up and running that runs the web service, schedule and queue workers.

The only thing I would like to add is autonomous migrations. So with Laravel, after deployment I'd like to run php artisan migrate --force on one of the containers. I don't need the container to be long lived. Would this be possible to achieve via a hook?

[tuladhar]

I believe this is what you are looking for: Run interactive commands over SSH

kamal app exec -i "php artisan migrate --force"

[chrispage1]

Thank you - thats great - I was just wondering if there's a way I can do it automatically as part of the deploy process?

[tuladhar]

You can use post-deploy hook.

[chrispage1]

Thank you - I have gone with the below for my post-deploy hook file

#!/bin/sh

kamal app exec --primary --roles=web --no-interactive "php artisan migrate --force"