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January 15, 2025

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Why Deploying Laravel on Google Cloud Shouldn’t Be This Hard (And How We’re Fixing It)

Why Deploying Laravel on Google Cloud Shouldn’t Be This Hard (And How We’re Fixing It)

Deploying a Laravel app to Google Cloud sounds like a great idea — until you actually try it. Between Cloud Run, environment variables, queues, and crons, things get complicated fast. In this post, I’ll share why Laravel deployment on GCP is harder than it should be — and how LaraRun is fixing that.

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If you've ever tried deploying a Laravel app on Google Cloud, you know it’s not exactly plug-and-play.

Sure, GCP is powerful. But between Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, queues, crons, environment variables, and IAM roles, it can quickly feel like you're building your own platform-as-a-service — from scratch.

And that's just to get a basic Laravel app running.

The Dev Pain is Real

Most Laravel developers love simplicity. That’s why tools like Laravel Forge and Vapor exist — they abstract away server and deployment complexity. But Forge is tied to VPS-style hosting. And Vapor? It’s AWS-only.

If you want to use GCP, you're mostly on your own.

That means:

  • Manually provisioning services like Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler

  • Writing your own Dockerfile or relying on buildpacks

  • Handling deployment pipelines via Cloud Build or GitHub Actions

  • Debugging failed deployments with cryptic logs

  • Managing .env files and secrets the hard way

And don’t get me started on Laravel’s schedule:run in a serverless environment.

There Has to Be a Better Way

That’s why we’re building LaraRun — a deployment platform designed specifically for Laravel on Google Cloud.

With LaraRun, you’ll be able to:

  • 🚀 Deploy Laravel to Cloud Run in seconds

  • 🔁 Automatically configure queues and schedule tasks

  • 🔐 Manage .env and secrets with Google Secret Manager

  • 📦 Use Git-based CI/CD with no YAML needed

  • ☁️ Scale with confidence using GCP’s infrastructure

All the power of Google Cloud, without the DevOps mess.

Built by Laravel Devs, for Laravel Devs

I’ve deployed more Laravel apps than I can count. I know what hurts. LaraRun isn’t another generic tool — it’s purpose-built for real-world Laravel workflows on GCP.

We’re in early development, and we’d love your feedback.

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If you’ve ever struggled with deploying Laravel on GCP, join the waitlist for LaraRun. You’ll get early access, and help shape the future of Laravel cloud deployment.