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One of the limitations of AWS Lambda is that the deployment size, including layers, must not exceed 250 MB. This is not ideal for large projects that have many composer dependencies. In addition, many people interested in Laravel Vapor would like to install additional PHP extensions that are not included in the native Vapor runtimes. Earlier this month, AWS announced [Container Image Support for Lambda functions](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/). This allows developers to package and deploy Lambda functions as Docker container images of up to 10GB. Just weeks later, we're excited to introduce Docker based deployment support for Laravel Vapor. To get started, make sure you are running the latest versions of `laravel/vapor-core` and `laravel/vapor-cli` and then create a fresh Vapor environment: ```bash vapor env my-environment --docker ``` The `--docker` option will instruct Vapor to create a `my-environment.Dockerfile` file and set the `runtime` configuration option within this file to `docker`. By default, the `my-environment.Dockerfile` will look like the following: ```bash FROM laravelphp/vapor:php74 COPY . /var/task ``` If you have an existing environment that you would like to switch to docker based deployments, you'll need to update the `runtime` configuration in your `vapor.yml` file and set it to `docker`. After that, you need to create a `.Dockerfile` for the environment. Vapor offers several base images that are based on Alpine Linux - these images have many of the common libraries and PHP extensions installed by default. You can install additional PHP extensions or libraries by updating the environment's corresponding Dockerfile. For example, here's how you may install the FFmpeg library and the XML-RPC PHP extension: ```bash FROM laravelphp/vapor:php74 RUN apk --update add ffmpeg RUN docker-php-ext-install xmlrpc COPY . /var/task ``` Once you are ready to deploy, run the `vapor deploy my-environment` command and Vapor will build and publish the Docker image. In addition, Vapor will configure the underlying AWS Lambda function to use the image as its runtime. Of course, you should ensure that you have installed [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) on your local machine. With the introduction of Docker based deployments, you can now deploy larger applications to Laravel Vapor and easily install any extra libraries or PHP extensions that your projects may need. If you haven't tried Laravel Vapor, now is a great time to start deploying your application with infinite scale! You can create your account today at: [https://vapor.laravel.com](https://vapor.laravel.com)

Beginning today, you may provide a list of email addresses that you would like to receive invoice PDFs when your Forge subscription successfully renews. This new feature is available on your "Profile > Subscription" dashboard.

One of Forge's killer features is that it can provision servers with your choice of database: MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. Once the server has provisioned you can then use Forge to: - Create new databases - Create new database users - Manage database users Whilst that was already a useful set of features we're excited to introduce **three** new features to the Database panel. Starting today, you can now: - Copy the **Database Connection URL** string into apps like [TablePlus](https://tableplus.com) to quickly connect to your database server. - Sync databases into Forge that were created manually (outside of the Forge dashboard). - Change existing database user passwords via the Edit Database User modal These features make up part of our efforts towards improving every aspect of the Forge dashboard. If you don’t have a [Forge](https://forge.laravel.com/) account, now is a great time to sign up! Forge allows you to painlessly create and manage PHP servers which include MySQL, Redis, Memcached, database backups, and everything else you need to run robust, modern Laravel applications.

As you may know, Vapor allows you to specify which PHP version a given environment runs on. Of course, we want you to be able to use the latest PHP features as soon as possible. Beginning today, you may now specify "php-8.0" as your application's runtime.

Starting today, you can provision T4g AWS servers using Laravel Forge. These instance types are powered by AWS Graviton2, a processor built by AWS using 64-bit ARM cores. These instance types provide a performance benefit of [up to 40% at a 20% lower cost](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t4g-instances-burstable-performance-powered-by-aws-graviton2/) in comparison to T3 instances. T4g instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland). If you don’t have a [Forge](https://forge.laravel.com/) account, now is a great time to sign up! Forge allows you to painlessly create and manage PHP servers which include MySQL, Redis, Memcached, database backups, and everything else you need to run robust, modern Laravel applications.

Starting today, you may also choose the EU (Milan) region when starting a new project on Vapor. This new region offers low latency for customers seeking to serve end-users in Italy.