Deploy Drupal on Kubernetes
Run Drupal on Kubernetes with Wodby’s ready-to-run managed stack. Launch production environments faster, standardize deployments, and keep day-to-day operations simpler for your team.
Launch production-ready Drupal faster
Start from a managed Drupal stack instead of assembling services, ingress, build pipelines, and runtime settings by hand.
Use Kubernetes with a managed Drupal stack
Give your Drupal team a ready-to-run stack with preconfigured infrastructure, scaling controls, and a cleaner deployment workflow.
Keep updates, backups, and SSL under control
Use built-in platform features for releases, certificates, backups, and recurring tasks so your team can focus on Drupal delivery.
Why run Drupal on Kubernetes?
Kubernetes gives Drupal teams a stronger foundation for modern delivery with predictable deployments, easier scaling, better workload isolation, and infrastructure you can standardize across environments.
Wodby keeps that model practical by packaging Drupal as a managed stack, so agencies and in-house teams can adopt Kubernetes without turning every project into a platform engineering effort.
A practical fit for Drupal workloads
- Separate web, PHP, cache, and database concerns into managed services.
- Scale horizontally for traffic spikes, launches, and editorial campaigns.
- Standardize staging and production around the same deployment model.
- Reduce custom operations work around routing, certificates, backups, and releases.
What you get with Wodby
- Managed Drupal stack for Kubernetes-based deployments
- Built-in CI/CD and image build workflow
- Automated backups and imports for safer releases and migrations
- Managed SSL certificates and domain setup
- Flexible scaling and resource controls
- Open, portable infrastructure via Wodby’s platform model
Connect the Kubernetes provider you already use
Run Drupal on managed Kubernetes from your cloud account for a flexible, scalable foundation that is easier to upgrade and well suited for high-availability architectures. If you need a lower cost option, choose a lean K3S setup on a dedicated server and still keep a Kubernetes-based workflow.
Budget option: K3S on a dedicated server
For smaller Drupal estates, agency workloads, and projects that need tighter infrastructure costs, Wodby can run on a dedicated server from providers such as Hetzner and OVH using K3S, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution.
This is often the most affordable way to keep the benefits of Kubernetes without paying for a full managed control plane. You can run many Drupal apps on one server, share infrastructure efficiently across environments, and get better utilization than hosting each site in isolation.
Read more in our blog post about affordable Kubernetes with K3S.
Managed Kubernetes for growth and resilience
When you need more flexibility, easier scaling, and stronger production resilience, managed Kubernetes is the better fit. Wodby works with managed clusters so your Drupal platform can grow cleanly as traffic, team size, and project complexity increase.
This approach is easier to upgrade over time, supports high-availability topologies more naturally, and gives you room to scale services and cluster capacity without redesigning the deployment model later.
How Drupal deployment works on Wodby
- 1
Choose a Kubernetes cluster from your preferred provider or use a Wodby-managed option.
- 2
Create a new app from the Drupal stack and connect your repository.
- 3
Configure services, domains, environment variables, persistent volumes, and databases.
- 4
Deploy changes through the built-in CI/CD workflow and scale when traffic grows.
Read more about stack management in our documentation.
Suitable for agencies, product teams, and Drupal specialists
If you manage multiple Drupal sites, need repeatable environments, or want to modernize delivery without becoming a full-time platform team, this setup is built for that use case.
Wodby gives you a consistent way to deploy Drupal across projects while keeping room for customization through services, integrations, and Kubernetes-native infrastructure.
Preview of the Drupal stack services
Explore the default services included in Wodby’s managed Drupal stack for Kubernetes on the Drupal stack page.
Services included in stack
| Stack service | Service | Versions | Enabled by default | Required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | Vinyl (Drupal) | 8.0, 6.0 | ||
| Nginx | Nginx (Drupal 11) | 1.29, 1.28, 1.27, 1.25 | ||
| PHP | PHP (Drupal 11) | 8.4, 8.5, 8.3 | ||
| SSHD | ||||
| MariaDB | MariaDB | 11.8, 11.4, 11.2 | ||
| Files NFS Storage | Ganesha NFS provisioner | 4 | ||
| Mailpit | Mailpit | 1.20 | ||
| Valkey | Valkey | 8.1, 7.2 | ||
| Solr | Solr | 9 | ||
| OpenSMTPD | OpenSMTPD | 7 | ||
| Cloud MySQL | Cloud MySQL | 8 | ||
| Gotenberg | Gotenberg | 8 | ||
| ZooKeeper (Solr) | ZooKeeper | 3.9 | ||
| PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL | 18 | ||
| Cloud MariaDB | Cloud MariaDB | 10.3 |
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See what our customers say about their experience with Wodby.
We moved our Drupal hosting to use Wodby and changed our development workflow to use Docker at the same time. Now we can concentrate on Drupal development and we're not losing time configuring servers etc. When a site needs additional resources or hosting in a different region we can be way more responsive as deploying a new instance takes no time at all.
Tony MillerDirector at Eighty Options
Wodby’s innovative infrastructure helped us to increase the speed and simplify our app deployment, while also leaving us the freedom of handling our hosting and not locking us on a specific pattern. We are now much more robust for future growth and will be able to innovate faster.
Martin Normann LundCTO at Ramsalt Lab
Wodby has proven to be an invaluable tool for Druid. It offers cost-effective solutions for our smaller customers, and its self-service dashboard empowers us to efficiently handle operations independently, reducing our reliance on support. We highly recommend Wodby for its user-friendly approach and cost-efficiency.
Marko KorhonenCTO at Druid
Ready to deploy Drupal on Kubernetes?
Join companies worldwide saving an average of 20+ hours of DevOps time per week with Wodby's managed Kubernetes platform.
- Deploy, scale, and manage applications with zero infrastructure complexity
- Maximized resource efficiency
- Accelerate time-to-market with 3x faster deployment cycles
- Free your team from DevOps overhead to focus on innovation
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- 10 app services
- 30 minutes of integrated CI
- 5 GB of private registry
- Stacks & integrations
- Technical domains with SSL