Serve a Laravel app with FrankenPHP on Clever Cloud

This is a simple demo of how to deploy a Laravel application served by FrankenPHP in a Docker container on Clever Cloud. You'll need a Clever Cloud account and Clever Tools.

Setup Clever Tools

npm i -g clever-tools
clever login

Create the local application

To create the Laravel application, you'll need Composer, then:

composer create-project laravel/laravel frankenLaravel
cd frankenLaravel
git init

Create and configure the Clever Cloud application

We set the port (8080) of FrankenPHP via SERVER_NAME. We also set APP_ENV and APP_KEY used by Laravel:

clever create -t docker 
clever env set APP_KEY "$(grep '^APP_KEY=' .env | cut -d '=' -f2)"
clever env set APP_ENV "production"
clever env set SERVER_NAME ":8080"

Create the Dockerfile

cat << 'EOF' > Dockerfile
FROM dunglas/frankenphp

COPY . /opt/app/
WORKDIR /opt/app/

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    git \
    zip \
    unzip

# Install composer
RUN php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" && \
    php composer-setup.php && \
    php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');" && \
    php composer.phar install
EOF

You can also choose to download the Dockerfile from this repository:

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davlgd/frankenphp-laravel-demo/main/Dockerfile

Git push!

git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
clever deploy
clever open

After the deployment, you should see the Laravel application running on Clever Cloud.