Dockerized Laravel and MySQL for local development
Docker is awesome. Its also quite useful for local development. The following Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml will be helpful if you want to do laravel development inside of docker. I am using Ubuntu as a base, but you can probably use the official PHP image as well. Dockerfile
FROM ubuntu:16.04RUN apt update RUN apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-zip php7.0-mbstring phpunit curl php7.0-mysql
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php RUN mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
RUN composer global require “laravel/installer”
RUN export PATH=$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
version: '2'
services:
app:
build: .
ports:
- "8000:8000"
volumes:
- .:/code
env_file: .env
working_dir: /code
command: bash -c 'php artisan migrate && php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0'
depends_on:
- db
db:
image: "mysql:5.7"
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
- MYSQL_DATABASE=$your_db
- MYSQL_USER=$your_db_user
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=$your_db_password
volumes:
- ./data/:/var/lib/mysql
ports:
- "3306:3306"
APP_ENV=local APP_KEY=$your_app_key APP_DEBUG=true APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug APP_URL=https://localhostDB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=db DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=$your_db DB_USERNAME=$your_db_user DB_PASSWORD=$your_db_password
BROADCAST_DRIVER=log CACHE_DRIVER=file SESSION_DRIVER=file QUEUE_DRIVER=sync
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1 REDIS_PASSWORD=null REDIS_PORT=6379
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io MAIL_PORT=2525 MAIL_USERNAME=null MAIL_PASSWORD=null MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
PUSHER_APP_ID= PUSHER_KEY= PUSHER_SECRET=
Gotchas
- In order to do stuff with the database you should add the following record to your local
/etc/hostsfile# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 db
- You should still install
npmand runnpm installfrom your local machine so that you can do frontend stuff. - Since we define
- .:/codeas a volume, this means that all of your local changes are immediately visible in the dockerized app. - If you need to access the running app or db container you can do so with
docker-compose run app bashordocker-compose run db bash
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