Most of our customers are hosted on maxcluster. And thanks to their cluster-control one can automate a lot of things using it. For example restarting PHP after deployment. You don’t want this on a production environment, but sometimes it might make sense to have it on a stage machine.
host('customer.winkelwagen.de')
// ...
->set('mc-cluster', 'C-1234')
->set('mc-server', 'srv-a');
<?php
task('maxcluster:apache:restart', function () {
$apiKey = escapeshellarg(getenv('MAXCLUSTER_PA_TOKEN'));
run("cluster-control login --pa_token=$apiKey");
run('cluster-control php:restart {{mc-cluster}} {{mc-server}}');
run("cluster-control logout");
})->select('stage=prod');
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