Alpine powered container for Laravel projects

This is a small project I started to effciently start Laravel projects with reduced dev ops delays.

What does it include?

The container includes the following packages installed on Alpine:

• Core utilities: curl, unzip
• PHP 7.x from apk services
• PHP extensions required for the Laravel project

Usage

Quick (no database)

This is where volumes are used to interact with the container project file. Run the following command to link your project folder.

Run the docker command to pull the image from the Docker repo.

docker pull johnnyhuy/laravel

Start a container from the image you have downloaded.

docker run -p 80:80 -v $PWD:/var/www/laravel -d johnnyhuy/laravel

Note: $PWD is the current directory.

Recommended for development (includes MySQL driver)

We'll be using docker compose to create a config file to include the MySQL image and link it to the johnnyhuy/laravel image. Create a docker-compose.yml in your project folder as shown.

version: "3"
services:
    web:
        build: ./
        image: johnnyhuy/laravel:latest
        ports:
            - "80:80"
        volumes:
            - .:/var/www/laravel
        links:
            - "db:database"
    db:
        image: mysql
        ports:
            - 3306:3306
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "YOUR ROOT PASSWORD HERE"
            MYSQL_DATABASE: "YOU MYSQL DATABASE NAME HERE (OPTIONAL)"

Production use

Step 1

Create a docker-compose.yml in your project folder as shown. Be sure to replace MySQL root password and database.

version: "3"
services:
    web:
        build: ./
        image: johnnyhuy/laravel:latest
        ports:
            - "80:80"
            - "443:443"
        links:
            - "db:database"
    db:
        image: mysql
        ports:
            - 3306:3306
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: "YOUR ROOT PASSWORD HERE"
            MYSQL_DATABASE: "YOU MYSQL DATABASE NAME HERE (OPTIONAL)"

Note: this is similar to the development method but without the volumes.

Step 2

Download the Dockerfile from this git or docker repository.

Step 3

Build the docker image by running the following command.

docker-compose build

Step 4

Run the container.

docker-compose up -d