So I've been playing with kubernetes for the last few days and diving into all the tech. But I've reached a point that I cannot surpass, hopefully, someone will be able to help me.

My objective: Have a Laravel app running on Nginx + PHP-fpm in kubernetes (each service in its own pod in order to be able to scale independently)

My current problem: When I hit my endpoint I get a 200 result regardless of the code being runned on the background. At this point, I'm not sure anymore if I am miss understanding how nginx+php-fpm+laravel work.

My understanding is that any request would do something along this: Browser->nginx->php-fpm->nginx->browser.

With Nginx purely passing the request along and not actually doing anything with the request itself.

I leave the relevant files in case someone can assist me.

Any help would be more than welcome

deployment.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: php-fpm
  namespace: dash
  labels:
    app: php-fpm
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: php-fpm
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: php-fpm
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: php-fpm
        image: azurecr.io/php
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9000
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx
  namespace: dash
labels:
  app: nginx
  spec:
    selector:
      matchLabels:
        app: nginx
    replicas: 1
    template:
      metadata:
        labels:
          app: nginx
      spec:
        containers:
        - name: nginx
          image: azurecr.io/nginx
          ports:
          - containerPort: 80

services.yaml

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: php-service
  namespace: dash
spec:
  selector:
    app: php-fpm
  ports:
  - name: php-fpm-port
    protocol: TCP
    port: 9000
---
kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: nginx-service
  namespace: dash
spec:
  selector:
    app: nginx
  ports:
  - name: "80-nginx"
    port: 80
    targetPort: 80
  - name: "443-nginx"
    port: 443
    targetPort: 443

nginx.conf

server {
    # Set the port to listen on and the server name
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name api.dashboard;

   location / {
       fastcgi_pass php-service.dash:9000;
       fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
       fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
       fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
       #fixes timeouts
       fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
       include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
   }

    location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
        root /var/www/letsencrypt/;
        log_not_found off;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/laravel_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/laravel_access.log;
}

php-fpm.conf

user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = 0.0.0.0:9000