Docker, Kubernetes, & PHP: Laravel Edition (Part III)

In this episode, joined by Ciaran McNulty & Alex Bowers, we take a look at the best practices for developing Laravel PHP applications with Docker, Docker Compose, and Kubernetes.

Our focus is on PHP applications run with nginx and php-fpm. This episode is a follow up to my "Kickass Development Environments with Docker" talk that I gave from 2016-2018.

Dubbed "The PHP Framework for Web Artisan", Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.


🕰 Timeline

00:00 - Holding screen
01:35 - Introductions
03:00 - Context - What have we done thus far?
05:50 - Automating the npm watcher
12:00 - Automating database migrations
18:00 - Confirming live reload works
22:10 - Getting hot module reload working
58:00 - Adding database persistence
1:03:00 - Running the tests
1:05:10 - Optimising our Dockerfile layers and caching

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🌎 Links

Ciaran McNulty - https://twitter.com/CiaranMcNulty
Alex Bowers - https://twitter.com/bowersbros
Code from Tutorial - https://gitlab.com/rawkode/php-examples