Local development environments are notoriously fragile. "It works on my machine" is a relic of the past when you embrace containerization.
Using Docker and docker-compose, you can entirely isolate the Laravel ecosystem. My standard blueprint orchestrates dedicated containers for Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, and Redis. It guarantees that the staging and production environments identically match your local setup.
Containerization not only simplifies onboarding new developers but enforces infrastructural as code (IaC) principles from day one.