What workflow does everyone use

I’m just wondering what workflow everybody uses? I’m used to developing on windows exclusively, so a lot of the linux stuff is new and cumbersome to me. I know I can develop locally, which is what I’m doing in a ubuntu VM on a windows box, but lets say I go into production. What then? How do I push to the server asap etc… what’s the best method for this kind of setup. I will be using Laravel as a framework mostly.

I liked the idea of having the cloud storage mounted locally in the vm, but I’ve found once i got over the hurdle of setting it up to accept my ssh key pair sublime wouldn’t save over the files anyway.