What is YOLO?

YOLO is a CLI tool that lives inside your Laravel app at vendor/bin/yolo. It provisions and configures all required AWS resources, and handles building and deploying your application with zero downtime.

At its core, YOLO is a Symfony Console application that leverages the AWS SDK directly — no CloudFormation, Terraform, Kubernetes, or Elastic Beanstalk.

Who is it for?

YOLO is designed for PHP developers who are comfortable managing AWS using an infrastructure-as-code approach.

While YOLO has underpinned very large, mission-critical production applications, it is not a set-and-forget solution. It acts as a control plane that allows you to manage and expand your AWS footprint over time.

Features

• Autoscaling Worker Groups — ALB with autoscaling groups for web, queue, and scheduler. Self-healing instances with automatic burst scaling.
• Resource Sharing — Share VPCs, subnets, and other resources between applications to reduce costs.
• Zero-Downtime Deployments — AWS CodeDeploy handles rolling deployments from the CLI or CI.
• Multi-Tenancy — Define tenants in your manifest and YOLO provisions resources for each one.
• Environment Management — Push and pull .env files to S3 with diff previews.
• S3 Integration — Build artefacts and user data file storage.
• Octane Support — Experimental support for Laravel Octane.
• Video Transcoding — AWS Elemental MediaConvert integration.
• Least Privilege IAM — Strong permission segregation across environments and apps.
• MySQL Backups — Scheduled mysqldump backups.

Disclaimer

Use YOLO at your own risk. It goes without saying, but we'll say it anyway.