Symfony 5 (NGINX, PHP-FPM and MySQL) with Docker

A Docker development environment for a Symfony 5 application.

Source: https://dev.to/martinpham/symfony-5-development-with-docker-4hj8

GitLab Repository: https://gitlab.com/martinpham/symfony-5-docker

There are 3 containers:

• MySQL, with mounted volume for data persistent
• PHP-FPM, with mounted volume for application’s code
• NGINX, with mounted volumes for configurations, logs, and share mounted volume with PHP-FPM for application’s assets

Sample environment variables

The .env file content:

DATABASE_NAME=symfony
DATABASE_USER=appuser
DATABASE_PASSWORD=apppassword
DATABASE_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret

APP_ENV=dev
APP_SECRET=24e17c47430bd2044a61c131c1cf6990

Symfony installation

symfony new src

Start up

docker-compose up

When all containers are ready, open http://localhost to see a Symfony 5 welcome screen.

Keep in mind

To wait until the MySQL container is online, run migration script, wait-for-it has been used.