Deploy laravel on Kubernetes with Helm chart

To more easily deploy and manage the Laravel application containers in a Kubernetes cluster, you can use Helm charts.

This guide walks you through the process of running an laravel application on a Kubernetes cluster. I will use PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager), Nginx and MariaDB to run the application.

How to get started?

Before you begin, please ensure Docker, Docker Compose, Helm and Kubernetes are installed and Docker is running.

Step 1:

Clone this project git clone https://github.com/dambergautam/laravel-kubernetes-helm.git.

Step 2:

Run below command to add blank laravel project from root directory.

bash ./bin/install-project.sh

This command will

• install new laravel project docker/laravel
• create docker images and run containers
• perform series of Laravel Artisan and NPM commands in the container.

To access website locally, visit http://localhost:82/.

Step 3:

To deploy the application on kubernetes using helm chart, create PHPFPM image with laravel application source

# Create new image
docker build -t <docker-registry-host>/laravel-application:0.1.0 ./docker/Dockerfile.phpfpm

# You might have to login to push image in docker repository.
docker login <docker-registry-host>

# Push image to your private repository
docker push <docker-registry-host>/laravel-application:0.1.0

Create Nginx image

docker build -t <docker-registry-host>/fellowship-nginx:0.0.3 ./docker/Dockerfile.nginx
docker push <docker-registry-host>/fellowship-nginx:0.0.3

Now, that you have all required images in docker repository, you can install/update helm chart by running below command from root directory.

bash ./bin/publish_chart.sh