My presentation about running Laravel -the popular PHP framework- on Google App Engine. Session delivered at GDG Cairo through the GCP Next Extended season, on May 7th 2016. Original presentation on GDrive: https://goo.gl/vF5jaX

1. Laravel & Google Cloud
Platform Do Mix!
Abdelrahman Omran
me@omranic.com
@omranic

2. Session Outline
This is just a proof of concept session,
you get the concepts and dig deeper.
Here’s what we’ll learn today?
1. What’s Google Cloud Platform? & Why?
2. What’s Google App Engine?
3. What’s Google Cloud Console?
4. What’s the other Google Cloud Services?
5. What’s Laravel? & Why?
6. Launch your Laravel Project on GCP in less than
10 minutes!
Go ahead and register for a free trial with $300 free
credit and make some awesome powerful apps! ;)
https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/

3. What’s GCP?

4. What’s GAE?

5. What’s GCC?

6. Other GCP Services?

7. Why GCP?

8. What’s Laravel? & Why?

9. The hybrid mix!

10. Technical Steps #1
1. Download Google App Engine SDK for PHP & follow installation steps on
the same page according to your OS: https://cloud.google.
com/appengine/downloads
2. Google Cloud Console > Create New Project “gcpcairo2” https://console.
cloud.google.com
3. git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git gcpcairo2

11. Technical Steps #2
3. git checkout 5.1
4. Install `shpasser/GaeSupportL5` composer package: https://github.
com/shpasser/GaeSupportL5
Add the following line to the `require` array in your project’s composer.json
"shpasser/gae-support-l5": "~1.0"
5. Run `composer install` inside project’s directory to install all requirements.

12. Technical Steps #3
6. Then include the service provider within `config/app.php` file:
ShpasserGaeSupportL5GaeSupportServiceProvider::class,
7. Generate Laravel key:
php -r "copy('.env.example', '.env');"
php artisan key:generate

13. Technical Steps #4
7. Now it’s time to prepare the project for Google App Engine:
php artisan gae:setup --config gcpcairo2
8. Add the following lines to your `.env` for cache performance:
CACHE_SERVICES_FILE=true
CACHE_CONFIG_FILE=true
CACHE_ROUTES_FILE=true
CACHE_COMPILED_VIEWS=true

14. Technical Steps #5
9. Temporary enable debug mode in `.env` file: APP_DEBUG=true
10. It’s time to deploy your application online:
appcfg.py -A gcpcairo2 -V v1 update . --noauth_local_webserver
11. You’re done! Access: https://gcpcairo2.appspot.com

15. Register Now & Get Started
Go ahead and register for a free trial with $300 free credit
and make some awesome powerful apps! ;)
https://cloud.google.com/free-trial/

16. Thanks!
Abdelrahman Omran
me@omranic.com
@omranic