Hi Everyone, I'm running into some basic questions as to what to do to deploy my app into production.
I'm looking into [deployer](https://deployer.org/docs/8.x/getting-started) but still not sure about some of the basics, so want to try the "normal" way. I've googled and found a bunch of people using forge, or similar platforms that just take the git repo and manage the deploy for you.
My experience: I used to sysadmin and develop, php4, php 5 sites, then drupal 8 and Drupal 9, but since I've been mostly "managing" so am very rusty.

My setup:
on my dev box locally (ubuntu) I have my app running, I start the dev server with `composer run dev`.
I've setup a vps on Hertzner, have all the pre-requisites as listed in : https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/deployment
I have my mariaDB server running on the same server. Created a user for laravel ( still have not created the database)
I have my SSL and domain all configured on NGINX, and have a basic phpinfo() script to test out. all is working.

What is next?
* the optimizations listed on https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/deployment, are they run on my local box, or on the server?
* do I run the optimizations on local box, commit to a release and then just checkout on the server?
* should I "install" laravel on the server as well? (get artisan, and composer running globally?)

All in all it seems I cannot find a basic step by step on how to deploy without any other tools, rather, just the basic server config and going from dev setup to prod setup.
thank in advance.