# Introduction

What Brewless is, what it does for you and what stays yours.


Brewless deploys and runs PHP applications on European cloud infrastructure: [Scaleway](https://www.scaleway.com) for the application itself and [bunny.net](https://bunny.net) for the edge in front of it. Both run in **your own accounts**. Brewless is the control plane that builds your releases, puts them live and keeps an eye on them.

## What Brewless does

- **Builds and releases.** `brewless deploy production` builds the current commit, runs your migrations and switches traffic once the new release answers healthy.
- **Rollbacks.** Any release that was live can be put back with one command.
- **Environment variables.** Kept in your own Secret Manager, pushed and pulled from the command line or edited in the console.
- **Queues and schedule.** Workers and scheduled tasks run next to your web container.
- **Scaling.** You set the bounds; your provider scales within them, down to zero if you like.
- **Domains.** Your own domain on an environment, with a certificate.
- **Logs and commands.** Read logs live and run one-off console commands in an environment.

## What stays yours

You own the Scaleway project and the bunny.net account, and both providers bill you directly. That has three consequences worth knowing from the start:

- **Brewless is not in the path of your visitors.** A request goes from the visitor to bunny.net to your container. It never passes through Brewless.
- **Your application keeps running without Brewless.** If you stop using Brewless, everything in your accounts stays where it is and keeps serving traffic.
- **Brewless does not keep your secrets.** It knows the names of your environment variables, never their values.

> [!NOTE]
> Laravel is the framework that is supported today. See [Frameworks](/reference/frameworks) for the current list.

## Where to go next

- [How Brewless works](/getting-started/how-it-works) explains the parts and who runs what.
- [Quickstart](/getting-started/quickstart) takes a Laravel application from nothing to a live release.