# PHP (Laravel / Symfony)

## Startup delay

Laravel's startup sequence (autoload optimization, key generation, migrations, package discovery) commonly takes 2–3 minutes on cluster restart or first boot. The default `initialDelaySeconds: 60` is too short — the liveness probe fires before the app is ready, kills the container, and a restart loop begins.

**Symptom**: pod shows `Running` for ~2 minutes, then gets `Killing` due to liveness probe failure, then a new pod starts the same cycle.

Use a `tcpSocket` liveness probe (avoids the Host header issue) with an extended initial delay:

```yaml
livenessProbe:
  tcpSocket:
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 120
  periodSeconds: 30
  failureThreshold: 6
readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 60
  periodSeconds: 15
  failureThreshold: 3
```

Symfony has the same behavior. Adjust `initialDelaySeconds` up if migrations are slow.

## Resources

256–512Mi request is typical for a PHP-FPM or Artisan-served app. Workers (queue:work, horizon) are separate processes — give them their own Deployment and 256–512Mi each.