Zerops x PHP

This is the most bare-bones example of PHP app running on Zerops.

Deploy on Zerops

You can either click the deploy button to deploy directly on Zerops, or manually copy the import yaml to the import dialog in the Zerops app.

Recipe features

• PHP 8.3 on Zerops Apache and Nginx service
• Zerops PostgreSQL 16 service as database
• Healthcheck setup example
• Utilization of Zerops' built-in environment variables system
• Utilization of Zerops' built-in log management

Production vs. development

Base of the recipe is ready for production, the difference comes down to:

• Use highly available version of the PostgreSQL database (change mode from NON_HA to HA in recipe YAML, db service section)
• Use at least two containers for the PHP service to achieve high reliability and resilience (add minContainers: 2 in recipe YAML, apacheapi/nginxapi service section)

Further things to think about when running more complex, highly available PHP production apps on Zerops:

• Containers are volatile - use Zerops object storage to store your files
• Use Zerops Redis (KeyDB) for caching, storing sessions and pub/sub messaging
• Use more advanced logging lib, such as Monolog, Analog or KLogger