Repo Rangler: PHP Service (Satis)

This docker service will mimic a satis repository, but a lot more powerful and flexible.

Installation

You should be able to resolve php.reporangler.develop locally on your computer. Maybe you need to edit /etc/hosts file or add to dns?

At first I had instructions which let people decide whether you want to run the manual way or the preconfigured way. The problem is that it becomes really hard to explain correctly to everybody how to do this. So I decided to provide only one way to do this and you can decide whether you want to follow it or not.

1. Configure the frontend proxy to receive all requests

The easiest and probably best way to run the services side by side on the same machine is to use the jwilder/nginx-proxy

The reason why you'd want a frontend proxy, is that your machine only has a single port 80. But we run multiple webservices all running on the default port 80. Which gives us a problem. A way around this is to use the docker-compose files in combination with the frontend proxy described here. It automatically configures the frontend proxy to hook up the container without any complex configuration.

This proxy listens on the docker socket for container start/stops and scans the environment variables, looking for recognised configuration parameters it can use to auto-configure the routing/upstream connections between your host machine and the docker container

If you don't want to use this, then I'm afraid you'll need to reconfigure everything to work with your desired setup. But since you're an advanced user. I will let you do that however you want.

network_name=repo_rangler_proxy
docker_image=christhomas/nginx-proxy:alpine
docker network create ${repo_rangler_proxy}
docker run -d --restart always --network=${repo_rangler_proxy} --name=${repo_rangler_proxy} -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro ${docker_image}

2. Run Docker Compose

Now once the proxy is up and running, we can run the containers that will be accessible via the proxy

docker-compose stop
docker-compose rm -f
docker-compose build
docker-compose up

NOTE: This command optionally can take the -d parameter if you want to run in the background

3. See whether they are running

docker ps

4. Query the container to see what it replies

curl -vvv http://php.reporangler.develop/healthz

It should output

> GET /healthz HTTP/1.1
> Host: php.reporangler.develop
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/1.16.0
< Content-Type: application/json
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.4
< Cache-Control: no-cache, private
< Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:32:06 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *.reporangler.develop
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS
< Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: *
< 
* Connection #0 to host php.reporangler.develop left intact
{"statusCode":200,"service":"http:\/\/php.reporangler.develop"} 

Usage

Replace the file 'all$12341234.json' with one generated by satis and composer should read it without any problems.

Once you've done that, try this:

composer show --all your-vendor/*

It should return this:

available:
  your-vendor/the-package-name A library that won't work because it's fake

If you want to check with your own satis packages. You can replace this file with your own. As long as the files are coming from gitlab or github, it should install everything fine.

I've run this against my own packages hosted on github and everything was hunky dory.

Future Ideas

Obviously repositories which rely on locally cached, or stored files, won't work. Because this project will not know how to serve them.

Notes

I realised that in order to make this run through a database, I just have to mimic the packages.json file and accept any request in the /include/ prefixed location and return a result and composer will be happy.

So this makes things a lot easier when wanting to return a custom list of packages based on an authorised or public user