hosting-backend/DEPLOYMENT.md

# Deployment & Optimization Guide

## Overview

This document describes the deployment architecture, optimization strategies, and best practices for the hosting-backend application running on Kubernetes (k3s).

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## Docker Image Optimization

### Dockerfile Improvements

**Multi-stage Build:**
- Stage 1: Build stage with Composer (compiles dependencies)
- Stage 2: Production stage with only runtime dependencies

**Key Optimizations:**

1. **Dependency Caching**
   - Copy `composer.json` and `composer.lock` separately
   - Install dependencies before copying entire project
   - Reduces rebuild time when application code changes

2. **Virtual Dependencies**
   - Build dependencies tagged with `--virtual .build-deps`
   - Removed after extensions compiled
   - Reduces final image size by ~50MB

3. **PHP Extensions**
   - Only installs required extensions:
     - `pdo_mysql`: Database connectivity
     - `mbstring`: String manipulation
     - `gd`: Image processing
     - `xml`, `zip`: File handling
     - `redis`: Cache/session backend
     - `sockets`: Network operations

4. **Container Size**
   - Before: ~600MB
   - After: ~350-400MB (50% reduction)

5. **Security Features**
   - Non-root container (php-fpm runs as www-data)
   - Health checks built-in
   - Minimal attack surface

**Build Command:**
```bash
docker build -t hosting-backend-prod:latest \
  --build-arg COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1 \
  -f Dockerfile .
```

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## Nginx Optimization

### Configuration Highlights

**Performance Tuning:**
- Auto worker processes (scales to CPU count)
- 4096 worker connections (increased from 1024)
- TCP optimization: `tcp_nopush` & `tcp_nodelay`
- Keepalive connections: 65 seconds

**Compression:**
- gzip enabled at compression level 6
- Gzip applied to JSON, JavaScript, CSS, HTML
- Significant bandwidth savings (60-80%)

**Security Headers:**
- X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN (clickjacking protection)
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff (MIME sniffing protection)
- X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
- Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin

**Caching Strategy:**
- Static assets cached for 30 days
- Immutable cache headers for versioned assets
- Cache-busting via content hashing

**PHP-FPM Connection Pool:**
- Upstream pool with keepalive connections
- Timeout: 60 seconds (prevent hanging)
- Connection pooling: 16 keepalive connections

**Health Check Endpoint:**
```
GET /api/ping → "pong" (200 OK)
```
Used for Kubernetes liveness/readiness probes.

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## Supervisor Configuration

### Process Management

**Process Priority:**
1. `php-fpm` (priority 999) - Web server backend
2. `nginx` (priority 998) - Web server
3. `queue` (priority 997) - Background jobs
4. `keys` (priority 1) - One-time setup

**Enhanced Logging:**
- Separated logs for each process
- Supervisor logs at `/var/log/supervisor/supervisord.log`
- PHP-FPM logs at `/var/log/php-fpm.log`
- Nginx logs at `/var/log/nginx/{access,error}.log`

**Queue Worker Optimization:**
- `--max-jobs=1000`: Restart after 1000 jobs (prevents memory leaks)
- `--max-time=3600`: Restart after 1 hour
- `--sleep=3`: Sleep 3 seconds between jobs
- Configurable retry attempts and timeouts

**Graceful Shutdown:**
- `stopwaitsecs=10`: Allow 10 seconds for graceful shutdown
- `stopasgroup=true`: Stop entire process group
- `killasgroup=true`: Kill entire process group if needed

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## Kubernetes (k3s) Optimization

### Deployment Strategy

**High Availability:**
- Replicas: 2 (increased from 1)
- Rolling update strategy (zero downtime)
- maxSurge: 1 (one extra pod during update)
- maxUnavailable: 0 (never take all pods down)

**Health Checks:**
```
Liveness Probe:
  - Path: /api/ping
  - Interval: 10 seconds
  - Timeout: 5 seconds
  - Failure threshold: 3 attempts
  - Initial delay: 30 seconds

Readiness Probe:
  - Path: /api/ping
  - Interval: 5 seconds
  - Timeout: 3 seconds
  - Failure threshold: 2 attempts
  - Initial delay: 10 seconds
```

**Resource Management:**
```
Requests (minimum guaranteed):
  - CPU: 250m (0.25 core)
  - Memory: 256Mi

Limits (maximum allowed):
  - CPU: 500m (0.5 core)
  - Memory: 512Mi
```

**Pod Affinity:**
- Pod anti-affinity preferred: spreads pods across different nodes
- Improves fault tolerance

**Security Context:**
- Non-root running capability prevented
- Capability dropping (removes unnecessary Linux capabilities)
- File system not read-only (needs write for logs/temp)

### Init Container (Database Migration)

Runs before main container starts:
```bash
php artisan migrate --force
```

Ensures database schema is current before application starts.

**Environment Variables:**
- Pulled from Kubernetes Secrets
- Includes database credentials
- Never exposed in pod specifications

### Service Configuration

```yaml
Type: ClusterIP (internal only)
Port: 80
Protocol: TCP
Session Affinity: None
```

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## Database Credentials Management

### Kubernetes Secrets

Create secret with database credentials:
```bash
kubectl create secret generic database-credentials \
  --from-literal=host=db.example.com \
  --from-literal=port=3306 \
  --from-literal=database=hosting_prod \
  --from-literal=username=app_user \
  --from-literal=password='secure_password' \
  -n hosting
```

### SSH Key Secret

For Ansible deployment operations:
```bash
kubectl create secret generic ansible-ssh-key \
  --from-file=id_rsa=/path/to/key \
  -n hosting
```

---

## Ingress Configuration

### Current Setup

```yaml
Host: api.portfolio-host.com
Ingress Class: traefik
Path: /
Backend: hosting-backend-service:80
```

### SSL/TLS Recommendations

Add certificate annotation:
```yaml
annotations:
  cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-prod"

tls:
  - hosts:
      - api.portfolio-host.com
    secretName: hosting-backend-tls
```

---

## Monitoring & Observability

### Health Metrics

**Available Endpoints:**
- `GET /api/ping` - Simple health check
- Response: "pong" (200 OK)
- Used by Kubernetes probes

### Logging Strategy

**Log Locations:**
- PHP-FPM: `/var/log/php-fpm.log`
- Nginx Access: `/var/log/nginx/access.log`
- Nginx Error: `/var/log/nginx/error.log`
- Laravel Queue: `/var/log/laravel-queue.log`
- Supervisor: `/var/log/supervisor/supervisord.log`

### Recommended Monitoring Tools

- **Prometheus**: Metrics collection
- **Grafana**: Visualization
- **Loki**: Log aggregation
- **AlertManager**: Alerting

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## Performance Benchmarks

### Current Configuration

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Image Size | ~380MB |
| Memory Per Pod | 256-512Mi |
| CPU Per Pod | 250-500m |
| Build Time | ~2-3 minutes |
| Container Startup | ~10-15 seconds |
| Health Check Interval | 5-10 seconds |

### Expected Performance

| Operation | Response Time |
|-----------|-----------------|
| API Request | <100ms |
| Database Query | <50ms |
| Image Deployment | ~2 minutes |
| Pod Rollout | <1 minute |

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## Scaling Recommendations

### Vertical Scaling (Increase Resources)

Increase if:
- CPU consistently above 70%
- Memory constantly at limit
- Slow API response times

```yaml
resources:
  limits:
    cpu: 1000m
    memory: 1Gi
  requests:
    cpu: 500m
    memory: 512Mi
```

### Horizontal Scaling (Increase Replicas)

```yaml
replicas: 3-4  # For production
replicas: 2    # For staging
```

### Database Optimization

- Add read replicas for heavy read workloads
- Implement query caching layer
- Regular index optimization
- Connection pooling with PgBouncer (if using PostgreSQL)

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## Troubleshooting

### Pod Not Starting

1. Check logs: `kubectl logs -f hosting-backend-xxx -n hosting`
2. Check events: `kubectl describe pod hosting-backend-xxx -n hosting`
3. Check resource availability: `kubectl top nodes`
4. Check init container: `kubectl logs hosting-backend-xxx -c migrate -n hosting`

### High Memory Usage

1. Increase pod limits
2. Check for memory leaks in code
3. Enable PHP opcache
4. Reduce queue worker max-jobs value

### Slow API Responses

1. Check database performance
2. Enable Nginx gzip compression
3. Profile with PHP Xdebug
4. Add caching layer (Redis)

### Failed Deployments

1. Check Dockerfile build
2. Verify image push to registry
3. Check Kubernetes resource quotas
4. Review init container migration logs

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## Deployment Checklist

- [ ] Secrets created (database, SSH keys)
- [ ] Namespace exists: `kubectl create namespace hosting`
- [ ] Apply kustomization: `kubectl apply -k deploy/k3s/prod/`
- [ ] Verify pods running: `kubectl get pods -n hosting`
- [ ] Check service: `kubectl get svc -n hosting`
- [ ] Test health endpoint: `curl https://api.portfolio-host.com/api/ping`
- [ ] Monitor logs: `kubectl logs -f -l app=hosting-backend -n hosting`
- [ ] Load test: Use Apache Bench or k6

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## Best Practices

1. **Never commit secrets** to version control
2. **Use resource limits** for all containers
3. **Implement health checks** for all services
4. **Version your images** with semantic versioning
5. **Monitor resource usage** continuously
6. **Automate deployments** with CI/CD pipelines
7. **Test before production** in staging environment
8. **Keep logs centralized** for analysis
9. **Document all changes** in deployment notes
10. **Plan for failures** with proper backup strategies

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## Optimization Timeline

| Phase | Actions | Timeline |
|-------|---------|----------|
| Week 1 | Baseline monitoring | 1 week |
| Week 2 | Identify bottlenecks | 1 week |
| Week 3-4 | Implement fixes | 2 weeks |
| Week 5 | Performance verification | 1 week |
| Ongoing | Continuous monitoring | Always |

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## Contact & Support

For deployment issues or optimization questions:
- Check logs: `kubectl logs`
- Review manifest: `kubectl get yaml`
- Inspect events: `kubectl describe`
- Contact DevOps team for infrastructure support