Symfony on Laravel Cloud: What Could Go Wrong? (Spoiler: Not Much) 🇺🇸

Laravel Cloud is initially built for Laravel. Symfony is not Laravel. So when our team decided to deploy our Symfony application on Laravel Cloud, eyebrows were raised, including our own. In this talk, we’ll walk through what happened next: the assumptions we challenged, the surprises we didn’t expect, and why the experience turned out to be far smoother than anyone predicted. You don’t need to know Laravel to follow along, just a basic familiarity with Symfony and a curiosity for what happens when you colour outside the lines.

We’ll cover how Laravel Cloud’s infrastructure maps naturally to a modern Symfony app, where the rough edges are (and how to file them down), and what this unconventional pairing can teach us about PHP deployment more broadly. Whether you’re looking for a managed cloud platform or just want to understand what makes a deployment platform tick, this talk will leave you with practical takeaways.