drupal8-docker-start

These are a bunch of scripts to help with creating a development environment for Drupal 8 and Docker on Mac OSX.

Prerequisites

• Install Docker for Mac
• Install docker-sync - gem install docker-sync

How to run

• in Terminal run bash init.sh

Available commands

• bash start.sh - will start containers and docker-sync + your start homepage in browser
• bash stop.sh - will stop containers - db does not get removed because it's local -bash restart.sh - will stop containers and docker-sync and then restart these, no db is lost
• docker-compose exec php drush - drush

Behind the scenes

• the scripts will:

  • create a directory for database so that if you kill docker you will not lose the db
  • downloads Drupal8 latest
  • pulls (if needed) and installs all required Docker images
  • runs the containers
  • performs a wait so that the files will be copied across from volumes
  • docker-sync will remain in listen mode and will sync files as they get changed
  • opens the start page of the Drupal site

  Debugging

  I use Kitematic to investigate containers. If a container fails to run make note of the errors and make sure they are not already running.(this was one of my problems, I forgot it running in a different project and two similar services were not able to run at the same time on same ports).

  If you're feeling geeky use these commands to investigate:

  docker ps --all

  docker images --all

  docker exec -it <container name> /bin/bash - to ssh into a container

  Docker reference

  Docker Sync

  docker4drupal - everything you need to know about what is installed in these containers.