Laravel

Dockerize your laravel application

Laravel Docker-example

This example combines Nginx and PHP-FPM in one package and uses a task scheduler to instantiate the background processes
The docker way is to seperate different services into different containers - in this case one container has nginx and php-fpm in another
I ran into some issues with this approach - When deploying updates to the solution files I had to update both the nginx and php-fpm container.
Another issue I had was the need to restart nginx / php-fpm when deploying a new updated solution.
I felt this was a problem, so I decided to setup my own simple container with what's needed to get a laravel solution up'n'running (and working in production)

Prerequisites:

• Laravel installation
• .env file -> this is probably an path variable in your pipeline
• Database (using the compose should start up a mysqldatabase channge the variables to your needs)

How to use

The bitbucket-pipelines.yml is an example - this could also be travis, gitlab or something alike (in their syntax), I'll probably add these later on
Add these files to your laravel installation, change the environment variables to fit your needs
execute \

docker-compose up -f docker-compose.dev.yml

For Development -

Rather than rebuilding our images, We'll just mount the laravel application folder \

docker build -t application-name . -f deploy/app.dev.docker 
docker run --rm -v ./var/www -p 8080:80 application-name

or just start the docker-compose file :-) \

for Production -

We copy the files into the container

 docker build -t application-name . -f deploy/app.prod.docker