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TL;DR

# Verify docker and docker-compose
$ docker --version && docker-compose --version
Docker version 18.09.5, build e8ff056
docker-compose version 1.23.2, build 1110ad01

# Try our dockerized demo app
$ git clone git@github.com:liteacz/hello-dockerized-world.git
$ cd hello-dockerized-world/examples/php
$ docker-compose up -d
# Open up the page in your favorite browser
$ firefox localhost:8000
# That's it!

Content

• About
• Getting started
• Demo
• Configuration

About

In our day to day work, we maintain a lot of dockerized (mostly PHP) projects. The dockerization itself is rather straightforward, but with every new project the process of dockerzing is quite repetitive, so we extracted the most common settings and extensions and created this set of images.

Hopefully it can be useful to someone else struggling with similar problems.

This repository contains both cli and fpm versions of the official PHP images. The main focus is on the fpm version which usually needs more boilerplate compared to the cli one.

The fpm image is meant to play well with our nginx, but it can be used by any other webserver that supports fastcgi.

Getting started

Using FPM

Assuming the following project structure, here is simple docker-compose.yml example that shows how to use the fpm and nginx images together for local development.

myproject
├── app
│   └── MyController.php
├── docker-compose.yml
└── public
    └── index.php

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  nginx:
    image: liteacz/nginx:1.19
    ports:
      - 8000:80
    volumes:
      - ./public:/var/www/public
    depends_on: 
      - php-fpm
    
  php-fpm:
    image: liteacz/php:8.1-fpm
      environment:
        FPM_ROOT_DIR: public
      volumes:
        - .:/var/www

Now when you call docker-compose up -d from within myproject folder you'll see something similar to:

$ myproject docker-compose up -d
Creating network "myproject_default" with the default driver
Creating myproject_php-fpm_1 ... done
Creating myproject_nginx_1   ... done

Note

If you don't have php and nginx images pulled locally, the first run will take some time to pull them. The subsequent start (docker-compose up -d) will be faster.

Now verify that both nginx and php-fpm containers are up and running:

$ docker ps -a

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                 COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
74bd21e8c4d8        liteacz/nginx:1.19    "docker-entrypoint n…"   12 seconds ago      Up 11 seconds       0.0.0.0:8000->80/tcp   myproject_nginx_1
1548c43f6aca        liteacz/php:8.0-fpm   "docker-entrypoint p…"   13 seconds ago      Up 11 seconds       9000/tcp               myproject_php-fpm_1

If you see "Up ..." within the "STATUS" column you should be able to navigate to localhost:8000 and see the "Hello dockerized PHP world!" message.

Using CLI

TODO

Demo time

If you don't feel like setting up the project structure yourself, try out our dockerized hello world example and get started in three simple steps (really, it's just git pull, cd hello-dockerized-world and docker-compose up -d). All you need is docker installed on your machine.

I would not count the cd as a single step myself, but who would believe in two commands setup?

Configuration

Even though the basic examples work out of the box, in real life situations you might want to configure your container. Here are some of the often use-cases that might address your problem.

List of available packages

TODO