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Server Control Laravel Package
innmind/server-control
A lightweight, framework-agnostic PHP library for controlling servers and remote processes. It offers a clean API to define connections, execute commands, and manage start, stop, restart, and status operations, making server automation easier to integrate, extend, and test.
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Frequently asked questions about Server Control
- Does innmind/server-control work with Laravel out of the box?
- No. It is a framework-agnostic PHP library with no Laravel service provider, facade, publishable config, or documented Eloquent/queue/event bridge. Using it in Laravel requires a from-scratch adapter, an interface boundary you own, and a mapping layer between your domain and its API. It also has no Laravel version constraint.
- How do I install innmind/server-control in a Laravel application?
- You install it with Composer, but expect integration work beyond the require step. There is no Laravel package discovery support, so you must write and register your own service provider. Before committing, verify the full transitive innmind dependency tree against your existing Laravel lockfile and PHP version constraints.
- What does innmind/server-control actually do?
- It provides a clean, framework-agnostic API to define connections, execute remote commands, and manage start, stop, restart, and status operations. It is intended to make server automation easier to integrate, extend, and test. The documentation does not clearly specify whether it controls child processes, systemd units, SSH hosts, or all three, and that distinction changes the risk class.
- Is it safe to call innmind/server-control directly from a Laravel controller?
- No. The Laravel web tier is an untrusted-by-design execution surface, and granting it system-level control authority inverts the standard privilege boundary. Any defect or injection path becomes remote code execution with the web user's privileges, or worse if sudoers entries are involved. The web tier should only request operations, for example by writing an intent record or dispatching a job.
- Which PHP and Laravel versions does innmind/server-control support?
- Laravel version support is not documented because the package has no Laravel constraint. The PHP constraint is also not stated in the package metadata and must be checked in its composer.json, along with the constraints of every transitive innmind package. A version solve against an existing Laravel lockfile is described as a coin flip.
- Can innmind/server-control manage systemd services or Supervisor?
- That is unclear from the available documentation. The package describes start, stop, restart, and status operations plus command execution, but does not specify whether it manipulates systemd units, supervises child processes, or connects over SSH. A timeboxed spike on a disposable VM is the only reliable way to confirm its actual capabilities.
- How does innmind/server-control compare with Laravel's Process facade or symfony/process?
- It overlaps with both, since all three want to own process lifecycle and command execution. Laravel's Process facade and symfony/process are far better supported inside Laravel and have broad production usage. Expect friction if you combine them, and prefer one owner for process lifecycle rather than mixing abstractions.
- Is innmind/server-control maintained and production-ready?
- The assessment flags high risk: zero stars, zero dependents, a single author, and no known external production users. There is no documented security contact or CVE history, and a last-release date in 2026 alongside zero adoption suggests version churn or automated tagging rather than battle-testing. The MIT license is the one unambiguously clean item.
- How should I integrate innmind/server-control safely in a Laravel production app?
- Own a ServerControlGateway interface in your application and implement it with an InnmindServerControlAdapter. Bind the adapter in a service provider that refuses to resolve outside an explicit CLI or server-control guard, so the web tier can never perform privileged operations. Treat it as the internals of a control-plane worker, never as something a controller or queued job calls directly.
- What dependencies does innmind/server-control pull in?
- The package appears to have no visible dependencies, but it comes from a single-author innmind ecosystem and typically drags in a tree of innmind packages. Each of those has its own PHP constraint, so the full transitive tree and PHP version ceiling must be audited before adoption. Composer risk is described as the bigger unknown compared with the code itself.
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