Laravel Dockerfile Development in Kubernetes

Laravel Docker Application Development with Jenkins and Kubernetes

What is Laravel Dockerfile?

Running Containers at any real-world scale requires container orchestration, and scheduling platform like Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, AWS ECS but the most popular out of it is Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications. In this post, We’ll share the process how you can Develop and Deploy Microservices based PHP Laravel Application on the Container Environment - Docker and Kubernetes and adopt DevOps in existing PHP Applications.

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Deploying Laravel Dockerfile in Kubernetes

To follow this guide you need -

Kubernetes
Kubectl
PHP Laravel Application Source Code
Dockerfile
Container-Registry

Kubernetes Automation

It is an open source platform that automates container operations, and Minikube is best for testing Kubernetes.

Setting Up Kubectl

Kubectl is command line interface to manage Kubernetes cluster either remotely or locally. To configure kubectl on your machine follow this link.

Shared Persistent Storage

Shared Persistent Storage is permanent storage that we can attach to the Kubernetes container so that we don`t lose our data even when container dies. We will be using GlusterFS as the persistent data store for Kubernetes container applications.

PHP Application Source Code

Application Source Code is source code that we want to run inside a Kubernetes container.

Using DockerFile

Dockerfile contains a bunch of commands to build PHP Laravel application.

Container Registry

The Registry is an online image store for container images. Below mentioned options are few most popular registries.

Private Docker Hub
AWS ECR
Docker Store
Google Container Registry

A Docker registry stores and distributes Docker images, further enabling you to complete operate and optimize image management workflow. From the Article, Docker Container Overview

Writing a Dockerfile for Laravel

The below-mentioned code is sample Dockerfile for PHP Laravel applications. In which we are using Apache Maven 3 as the builder for PHP Laravel applications and OpenJDK 8 as a base development environment. Alpine Linux is used due to its very compact size. Below mentioned is the sample Apache2 config file for Laravel application. Create a file name laravel . conf and add the below-mentioned code to it.

Building Laravel Docker Image

The below-mentioned command will build your application container image.

Publishing Laravel Docker Container Image

Now we publish our PHP Laravel application container image to any container registry like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Google Container Registry, Private Docker Registry. Today I will be using Azure container registry for publishing container images. You also need to Sign UP to Azure Cloud Platform then create container registry by using the link. Now use this link to Pull and Push to Azure Container registry. Similarly, we can push or pull any container image to any of the below-mentioned container registries like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Google Container Registry, Private Docker Registry etc.

Publishing Java Container Image

This process will enable Publishing Java application container images to any container registry using docker hub registry and Kubernetes cluster. Create a account on docker hub and create a Public/Private Repository of your application name. To login to your docker hub account. Execute the below-mentioned command.

$ docker login

Now we need to retag java application image and push them to docker hub container registry. To Retag application container image

$ docker tag < name of your application > : < version of your application > < your docker hub account > /:

To Push application container Images

$ docker push < your docker account > /:

Similarly, we can push images to any of above-mentioned container registry like Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Google Container Registry, Private Docker Registry etc.

Setting Persistent Volume

Persistent Volume is only required if your application has to save some data other than a database like documents, images, video etc then we need to use the persistent volume that kubernetes support like was AWS EBC, CephFS, GlusterFS, Azure Disk, NFS etc. I will be attaching GlusterFS volume as a persistent volume to the kubernetes container. GlusterFS volumes are very simple and easy to create. Follow the below mentioned commands.

$ gluster volume create < application name > replica 2 transport tcp < node 1 > : /mnt/brick
1 / < application name > < node 2 > : /mnt/brick
1 / < application name >
 $ gluster volume start < application name >
 $ gluster volume info < application name >

Creating Deployment files for Kubernetes

Deploying application on kubernetes with ease using deployment and service files either in JSON or YAML format.

Deployment File

Following Content is for “ .deployment.yml” file of python container application.

apiVersion: extensions / v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
 name: < name of application >
 namespace: < namespace of Kubernetes >
 spec:
 replicas: 1
template:
 metadata:
 labels:
 k8s - app: < name of application >
 spec:
 containers:
 -name: < name of application >
 image: < image name > : < version tag >
 imagePullPolicy: "IfNotPresent"
ports:
 -containerPort: 7102
volumeMounts:
 -mountPath: /data
name: < name of application >
 volumes:
 -name: < name of application >
 glusterfs:
 endpoints: glusterfs - cluster
path: < name of application >
 readOnly: false

Service File

Following Content is for “ .service.yml” file of python container application.

apiVersion: v1https://www.xenonstack.com/use-cases/stream-analytics-iot/
kind: Service
metadata:
 labels:
 k8s - app: < name of application >
 name: < name of application >
 namespace: < namespace of Kubernetes >
 spec:
 type: NodePort
ports:
 -port: 7102
selector:
 k8s - app: < name of application >

Deploying application on Kubernetes with ease using deployment and service files either in JSON or YAML format.

Deployment File

Following Content is for “ .deployment.yml” file of python container application.

Service File

Following Content is for “ .service.yml” file of python container application.

Running Laravel Dockerfile in Kubernetes

PHP Laravel Container can be deployed either by Kubernetes Dashboard or Kubectl (Command line). I`m explaining command line that you can use in production Kubernetes cluster. Now we have successfully deployed PHP Laravel Application on Kubernetes.

Verifying Application Deployment

We can verify application deployment either by using Kubectl or Kubernetes Dashboard. Below mentioned command will show you running pods of your application with status running/terminated/stop/created. Result of above command Deploying PHP Laravel Application on Kubernetes

Deploying PHP Laravel Application on Kubernetes

Testing Application Deployment

Get the External Node Port using the below-mentioned command. External Node Port is in the range from 30000 to 65000.

Laravel Docker Container Scaling

Your PHP Laravel application should be the stateless application before you do application scaling in kubernetes. You can scale out an application in so many ways. Here I have mentioned two of them which are mostly used.