Laravel in Kubernetes

This is the code that I used for my article in dev.to where I explain how to deploy a Laravel application in kubernetes using DigitalOcean as a cloud provider.

You can read the article in Spanish.

Get started

Clone the manifests.

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/gregorip02/laravel-in-kubernetes.git
$ cd laravel-in-kubernetes

Then you have to generate a configuration file for your Laravel application.

$ cp .env.example .env

Modify your environment variables depending on your requirements. You can use this command to generate a valid application key for laravel:

$ echo "base64:$(openssl rand -base64 32)"

Then copy the result of this operation and assign it to the environment variable APP_KEY in the .env file.

Finally you must generate a secret of kuberntes from the configuration file .env:

$ kubectl create secret generic laravel-environment \
  -n laravel-app \
  --from-file=.env \
  --dry-run \
  -o yaml > 01-secrets.yml

Finally apply all manifests using a command:

$ kubectl apply -f .

Remember

If you are using minikube you can use the minikube service list command to obtain the public ip address of your load balancer that will take you to the Laravel application.
If you are using a cloud provider like DigitalOcean using kubectl -n laravel-app get svc -o wide you can get your public ip address.