Installer

The installer preset is the starting point for a one-time installer for your app, built on laravel-installer. People run it once on their server: it checks the host, then runs your app's setup steps in a browser, such as the migrations and creating the first admin, and removes itself when stopped.

Render and customize it

php artisan podman:publish installer

Edit the steps in containers/stubs/installer/runtimes/installer/:

• manifest.yml lists the steps. It runs the migrations in the app container, systemd-{{application}}, and has a commented-out step for creating the first admin with your app's own command. Laravel has no such command itself.
• Each step has a Markdown file, which the installer shows above it.

See the manifest for every option. Placeholders such as {{appName}} and {{application}} work in these files too.

Build and run it

php artisan podman:generate installer
podman build -t my-app-installer podman/installer/runtimes

Push the image to a registry, then start it on the server with lpod:

lpod installer ghcr.io/me/my-app-installer

lpod installer passes in the host checks of lpod doctor and the Podman socket the steps run through, and listens on 127.0.0.1:8085 only. Open the link it prints.