How to Terminate Horizon during Deployment in Laravel Forge

Horizon is a beautiful dashboard for Laravel applications that make use of the Redis queue. In this short post, you'll learn how to terminate the Horizon process on the Laravel Forge deployment process.

Deployment Scripts

Inside the deployment script, do add the command below and on each deployment, it will gracefully terminate the master Horizon process on the machine. Any of the jobs that horizon is processing will be completed then horizon will exit.

// existing deployment scripts

// command to terminate laravel horizon
php artisan horizon:terminate

Do note that you'll have to set up horizon daemon by accessing the "daemons" page on the dashboard and defining the configuration. The command would be "php artisan horizon" and the directory is the full path of where the website is located in the machine.

By having a daemon, the horizon instance will automatically be restarted by the process monitor such as the supervisor upon each successful deployment.

By now you should know How to Terminate Horizon during Deployment in Laravel Forge. If you find this tutorial to be helpful do make sure to share it with your friends and happy learning.