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.

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 .

• 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.