Hi there, I have a Laravel app that I set up on Render that I set up following the Render Laravel tutorial. That tutorial launches a 5.8 application. I’d like to upgrade my Render server to run PHP 8 as it’s a requirement for Laravel 8 and we’re upgrading to Laravel 8 
I’ve upgraded my composer.json file to use PHP 8. Is there anything else we need to do to make sure the Render service will run PHP 8? On my local machine I upgraded PHP version with Homebrew…
Hi @connor11528! The base Docker image in our guide is richarvey/nginx-php-fpm:1.9.1, which uses PHP version 7.4.5. I believe Laravel 8 is compatible with this version of PHP. So you shouldn’t have to do anything extra other than changing your composer.json file. I should emphasize that I haven’t tested this myself so I could very well be missing something. Don’t hesitate to follow up if there are any unexpected hurdles to clear.
Okay cool thanks! I’d really like to try out Laravel Octane which uses Swoole / Road Runner to serve requests really fast. It does require PHP 8. It’s in testing phase though so can wait on it. For now can run PHP 7.4 and Laravel 8
For the record, this is an example Dockerfile that new Laravel apps use (with Laravel Sail). Might try switching up my Dockerfile and/or adding a docker-compose file. Still learning bout things though lol