[olssonm]

Signed up right away deployed a new server on Digital Ocean.

Really easy and powerful tool – BUT (this is a big one), why lock someone in with GitHub? Sure, GitHub is great. But what if I use BitBucket? Or even my own solution for my private projects?

This has killed many other services before for me, Pagoda Box (if I recall correctly) also forced someone to use GitHub, so did Appfog (or PHPfog rather).

I like Fortrabbits solution, where you at least can push your own code.

[BenBradleySmith]

I think that Taylor mentioned in the keynote that BitBucket support is planned.

Edit: Confirmation of Bitbucket/Gitlab support coming soon: https://twitter.com/laravelphp/statuses/468401873519915008

[olssonm]

If so – I'm very glad to hear that! Then there's hope for someone like me too.

[robjmills]

Taylor has just mentioned on Twitter that he's going to start looking at Gitlab and Bitbucket tonight.

[mskierkowski]

In the mean time you can use https://factor.io/ for "push-to-deploy" with BitBucket or Gitlab.

[Kiro]

> so did Appfog (or PHPfog rather)

I never had to use GitHub for PHPFog. What do you mean exactly?

[olssonm]

My bad – perhaps it was Engineyard? I know that there was one more service that I've tried besides PagodaBox on which you were "forced" to use GitHub to deploy code.

[girvo]

Yeah I seem to remember just being able to push directly?

[laravel]

You can push your own code on Forge... you have full server access.