Deploy Laravel App on Kubernetes using AWS (EKS)

1. Prepare Laravel App

Configure .env for production

Run optimization commands:

php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache

Use php-fpm with nginx
Database and storage (e.g. S3) should be external

2. Dockerize Laravel

FROM php:8.2-fpm

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    build-essential libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libonig-dev libxml2-dev zip unzip curl git

RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql mbstring exif pcntl bcmath gd

WORKDIR /var/www

COPY . .

COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
RUN composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www && chmod -R 755 /var/www

EXPOSE 9000
CMD ["php-fpm"]

3. Push Docker Image

docker build -t yourusername/laravel-app .
docker push yourusername/laravel-app

4. Create Kubernetes Cluster (AWS EKS)

eksctl create cluster --name laravel-cluster --region us-west-2 --nodegroup-name standard-workers

5. Kubernetes Manifests

Deployment

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: laravel-app
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: laravel
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: laravel
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: laravel
        image: yourusername/laravel-app
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9000
        envFrom:
        - configMapRef:
            name: laravel-config
        volumeMounts:
        - name: storage
          mountPath: /var/www/storage
      volumes:
      - name: storage
        emptyDir: {}

Service

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: laravel-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: laravel
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 9000
  type: LoadBalancer

6. ConfigMap

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: laravel-config
data:
  APP_ENV: production
  APP_KEY: your-app-key
  DB_HOST: your-db-host
  DB_DATABASE: your-db
  DB_USERNAME: your-user
  DB_PASSWORD: your-password

7. Apply Manifests

kubectl apply -f configmap.yaml
kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f service.yaml

8. Optional Enhancements

Database: Use AWS RDS
Storage: Use AWS S3 (Laravel Filesystem)
HTTPS: Use AWS ACM with Ingress or ALB
Autoscaling: Use HPA
Monitoring: AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana

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