Deploy PHP on Google Cloud C4A Arm-based Axion VMs

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for developers migrating Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) workloads from x86_64 to Arm-based servers, specifically on Google Cloud C4A virtual machines (VM) built on Axion processors.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Provision a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machine on a Google Cloud C4A Arm-based Axion virtual machine
• Install PHP on a SUSE Arm64 C4A instance
• Validate PHP functionality by running baseline HTTP server tests
• Benchmark PHP performance using PHPBench on Arm64 architecture

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with billing enabled
• Basic familiarity with web servers and PHP scripting