Laravel Homestead
Vagrant-based virtual machine for local Laravel development, with Nginx, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL included.
laravel.com/docs/homesteadrepositorydocs
Laravel Homestead is an official, pre-packaged Vagrant box for local Laravel development. The box includes Nginx, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL. The Homestead application is a wrapper around Vagrant, and the project is installed by cloning its repository onto the host machine. Taylor Otwell holds the copyright, and the project is released under the MIT license.
Worth knowing
The project is discontinued. Its documentation calls Homestead a legacy package that is no longer actively maintained, the GitHub repository is archived, and the Packagist package is flagged as abandoned with no replacement named in its metadata. The documentation names Laravel Sail as a modern alternative for local development.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-28: Status, links, Categories, Databases, Install with, Runs as
laravel.com/docs/homestead - 2026-10-28: Status, links, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead - 2026-10-28: Status, First release
repo.packagist.org/p2/laravel/homestead.json - 2026-10-28: Maintainer, License
github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/main/LICENSE.txt - 2026-10-28: Current major version
api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/releases - 2026-10-28: Last release
api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/releases/latest - 2026-10-28: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/laravel/homestead/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-28: Packagist downloads
packagist.org/packages/laravel/homestead.json - 2026-10-28: Dependent packages, Dependent repositories
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/laravel%2Fhomestead