Flysystem Bunnycdn Laravel Package

Product Decisions This Supports

• Storage/CDN vendor selection (BunnyCDN vs. S3, R2, Spaces, Backblaze). This adapter is the concrete "yes we can actually run on BunnyCDN" enabler. It turns a pricing spreadsheet comparison into a testable decision: if the adapter covers our required file operations, BunnyCDN's storage + edge pricing becomes a viable line item in the cost model.
• Build vs. buy for a storage driver. The alternative is a bespoke BunnyCDN driver (~2–4 engineer-weeks plus permanent maintenance). Adopting an MIT-licensed Flysystem adapter is the low-cost path; forking is a fallback since the surface area is small and the code is ours to keep if upstream stalls.
• Private/paid content delivery. The v3.3.8–3.3.10 work on temporary URLs, pull-zone prefixes, and query-param support is the decision-critical capability: signed, expiring links for gated downloads, paid media, or per-user assets. Without it, BunnyCDN would be a public-bucket-only option and likely disqualified for premium content.
• Media pipeline and large-file workflows. True streaming (v3.3.6) plus writeBatch and deep listContents support decisions around user-generated content uploads, video/asset delivery, backup/export jobs, and admin file browsers — without those, we would have had to build chunking/streaming plumbing ourselves.
• Multi-environment and multi-tenant layout. prefixPath support lets one storage zone serve dev/staging/prod or per-tenant isolation, which reduces how many storage zones (and how much cost/complexity) we provision.
• Roadmap optionality. Because it sits behind Laravel's Flysystem abstraction, choosing this package does not lock us in: we can keep S3/R2 as a parallel disk, A/B the delivery performance, and switch the default disk via config rather than a rewrite. That keeps CDN migration a reversible, low-blast-radius decision.
• Reliability and data-integrity bets. Fixes for destructive delete/deleteDirectory behavior (v3.3.3, v3.3.4) and SHA-256 checksum reuse (v3.3.2) are the kinds of defects that map directly to "did we lose customer files" — worth weighing as evidence the maintainers treat data safety seriously.

When to Consider This Package

Adopt when:

• The application is Laravel/PHP 8+ and already uses (or is willing to use) Flysystem disks — i.e., no custom storage abstraction to unwind.
• BunnyCDN storage is a live candidate on cost or performance grounds, and the team wants a working driver rather than a proof-of-concept.
• You need the features shipped in the 3.3.x line: temporary/signed URLs, streaming reads/writes, prefix paths, batch writes, folder move, deep listing, and multi-region support.
• Your requirements are standard object operations (put/get/delete/copy/move/list/URL generation). Nothing exotic.
• You can accept a community-maintained dependency: MIT license, active releases, changelog hygiene, but ~95 stars, no official BunnyCDN endorsement, and a small contributor base (a few prolific contributors, including recent first-time contributors). Mitigate by pinning versions, wrapping the adapter behind your own StorageService interface, and keeping the S3 adapter as a hot standby.
• You want a low-commitment trial: a spike is one config block plus credentials.

Look elsewhere when:

• You need vendor-backed SLAs or commercial support. This is community software; BunnyCDN's official tooling or a paid provider (S3/CloudFront, R2) is the safer answer for regulated or revenue-critical paths.
• You require features outside the adapter's scope: image/video transformation APIs, lifecycle policies, bucket-level IAM, or fine-grained ACLs. Flysystem adapters expose a filesystem, not a full cloud control plane — those need BunnyCDN's API directly or a different provider.
• Your stack is not PHP/Laravel, or you're on an older PHP/Flysystem major version — the v3 line requires PHP 8.0+ and is not a drop-in for v2-era codebases.
• Your organization gates third-party dependencies on popularity/maintenance thresholds (e.g., >1k stars, multiple corporate maintainers, published security policy). This package will not clear a strict OSS intake review without an exception and an internal fork/ownership plan.
• You need hard guarantees on unusual edge cases — the changelog shows a steady drumbeat of path-prefixing, MIME-type, and datetime-parsing fixes, which is normal for an adapter but signals that uncommon paths (odd filenames, non-standard timestamps, text/plain MIME quirks noted in v3.1.2) can bite. If your data is messy, budget QA time.
• You're already deeply integrated with another provider and switching costs outweigh the CDN savings. Cost the migration and dual-run period honestly before committing.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

For executives (one paragraph): We can meaningfully reduce media storage and delivery spend by moving asset storage to BunnyCDN, and this package is the piece that makes that switch a two-week configuration change instead of a multi-month build. It's an MIT-licensed, actively maintained Laravel adapter (latest release August 2026) that plugs BunnyCDN into the storage layer we already use, supports expiring private links for paid content, and streams large files without loading them into memory. The important risk is that it's community-maintained rather than vendor-backed, so I'd propose adopting it behind our existing storage interface, keeping our current provider configured as a fallback, and running a measured pilot before migrating anything customer-facing.

For engineering leads (the practical case): It's a Flysystem v3 adapter — install, add a disk config, done. You get temporaryUrl with pull-zone prefixes and query params, true streaming, writeBatch, prefix paths for environment/tenant isolation, deep listContents, folder moves, and SHA-256 checksum reuse across the regions BunnyCDN exposes (including São Paulo, Johannesburg, Los Angeles). Recent releases have hardened destructive operations (delete, deleteDirectory, move-to-same-destination), which is the failure class we care most about. Requirements: PHP 8.0+, Flysystem v3, and acceptance of a small-maintainer dependency. Recommended guardrails: pin the version, wrap it in our own storage service so the driver is swappable, keep the S3 disk configured as a rollback path, and add integration tests around prefix paths, MIME detection, and delete semantics — the three areas with the most historical churn.

Ask: Approve a scoped pilot (one non-critical asset domain, 4–6 weeks) with success criteria of cost per GB delivered, p95 asset latency vs. current provider, and zero data-integrity incidents; decision to expand or revert at the end.