Laravel 5.4 | How to upload image using bootstrap fileinput?

I am trying to use bootstrap-fileinput plugin to upload a profile image in a laravel project here is the view

@section('content')

<div class="fileinput fileinput-new" data-provides="fileinput">
     <div class="fileinput-new thumbnail" style="width: 200px; height: 150px;">
          <img src="http://ift.tt/1p382He" alt="" /> </div>
               <div class="fileinput-preview fileinput-exists thumbnail" style="max-width: 200px; max-height: 150px;"> </div>
                    <div>
                         <span class="btn default btn-file">
                               <span class="fileinput-new"> Select image </span>
                                     <span class="fileinput-exists"> Change </span>
                                           <input type="file" name="..."> </span>
                                                   <a href="javascript:;" class="btn red fileinput-exists" data-dismiss="fileinput"> Remove </a>
                    </div>
</div>

@endsection

The objective is to upload this image to storage dir and store the path to file in db table, but I have no clue how to do that, I am submitting the form via POST to a store method in my controller. Here is that function

public function store(Request $request)
{
    //
     $this->validate($request, [
    'first_name' => 'required',
    'dob' => 'required',
    'mobile_no' => 'unique:customers',
    'adhar_no' => 'unique:customers',

     ]);

    $customer = new customer;

    $customer->first_name = $request->first_name;
    $customer->last_name = $request->last_name;
    $customer->gender = $request->gender;
    $customer->dob = $request->dob;
    $customer->mobile_no = $request->mobile_no;
    $customer->adhar_no = $request->adhar_no;
    $customer->street = $request->street;


    $customer->save();
    return redirect('home/customer');

}

Please help

via Chebli Mohamed