PHP + Laravel Dockerfile :

FROM php:7.3-fpm AS builder

# Clean-up Repo list
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN curl -sS -o /tmp/icu.tar.gz -L https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/download/release-57-1/icu4c-57_1-src.tgz && tar -zxf /tmp/icu.tar.gz -C /tmp && cd /tmp/icu/source/ && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install

# Install common php extension dependencies
RUN apt-get clean && apt-get update && apt-get install -y 
    coreutils 
    libfreetype-dev 
    libjpeg62-turbo-dev 
    libpng-dev 
    zlib1g-dev 
    libzip-dev 
    unzip 
    git

# Enable Apache mod_rewrite for URL rewriting
RUN a2enmod rewrite

# Install PHP Extensions
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/php/ext/redis; 
    curl -fsSL --ipv4 https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/archive/5.3.2.tar.gz | tar xvz -C "/usr/src/php/ext/redis" --strip 1; 
    docker-php-ext-install redis

RUN docker-php-ext-configure zip && 
    docker-php-ext-install zip

RUN docker-php-ext-configure gettext && 
    docker-php-ext-install gettext

RUN docker-php-ext-configure intl && 
    docker-php-ext-install intl

RUN docker-php-ext-configure pdo_mysql && 
    docker-php-ext-install  pdo_mysql

RUN docker-php-ext-configure mysqli && 
    docker-php-ext-install  mysqli && 
    docker-php-ext-enable mysqli

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y 
        libfreetype6-dev 
        libjpeg62-turbo-dev 
        libpng-dev 
    && docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) iconv 
    && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/ 
    && docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) gd

COPY apache-site-config/develop.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/develop.conf
# Configure Apache DocumentRoot to point to Laravel's public directory
# and update Apache configuration files
ENV APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html/public
RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/example/current/public!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf
RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/example/current/public!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/*.conf

# Copy existing application directory
COPY . /var/www/html

# Set working directory
WORKDIR /var/www/html

RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html 
    && chmod -R 775 /var/www/app/storage

# Install composer
COPY --from=composer:1.6.3 /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer

RUN mkdir -p ~/.ssh && 
    chmod 0700 ~/.ssh && 
    ssh-keyscan bitbucket.org > ~/.ssh/known_hosts

# Copy composer.json to workdir
COPY composer.* ./
# RUN omposer install & Clone private repository
RUN --mount=type=ssh composer install

COPY dotenv/.env.development .env

ARG NODE_VERSION=8.16.2
RUN curl https://nodejs.org/dist/v$NODE_VERSION/node-v$NODE_VERSION-linux-x64.tar.gz | tar -xz -C /usr/local --strip-components 1
RUN npm install
RUN npm run dev
# Command to start the Artisan server
# CMD ["php", "artisan", "serve", "--host=0.0.0.0", "--port=8000"]

This service listen at website:8000

Nginx Config :

    # limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=login:10m rate=25r/s;

    # upstream website {
    #     server website:8000;
    # }

    upstream assets {
        server poc.assets.example.com:80;
    }

    upstream drupal {
        server drupal.cms-prod.svc.cluster.local:80;
    }

    server {
        listen         80 default_server;
        server_name    localhost;
        proxy_connect_timeout 30;
        proxy_send_timeout   30;
        proxy_read_timeout   30;
        send_timeout         30;

        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;

        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";
        gzip_vary on;
        gzip_proxied any;
        gzip_comp_level 6;
        gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        gzip_http_version 1.1;
        gzip_types
            application/atom+xml
            application/javascript
            application/json
            application/rss+xml
            application/vnd.ms-fontobject
            application/x-font-ttf
            application/x-web-app-manifest+json
            application/xhtml+xml
            application/xml
            font/opentype
            image/svg+xml
            image/x-icon
            text/css
            text/plain
            text/x-component;


        location / {
             proxy_pass http://website:8000;
        }

        location /images/ {
            proxy_pass http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/images/;
            proxy_redirect http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/images/ /images/;
        }

        location /toolbox/ {
            proxy_pass http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/toolbox/;
            proxy_redirect http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/toolbox/ /toolbox/;
        }

        location /downloads/ {
            proxy_pass http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/downloads/;
            proxy_redirect http://dev.example.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/downloads/ /downloads/;
        }

        location /sites/default/files/ {
            proxy_pass http://drupal/sites/default/files/;
            proxy_redirect http://drupal/sites/default/files/ /sites/default/files/;
        }

        location /nginx_status {
              stub_status on;
              allow all;
        }

    }

All requests for dev.example.com hits nginx first and requests are forwarded to PHP + Laravel App. This setup is deployed Kubernetes.

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