Like Laravel Homstead but for Docker instead of Vagrant.
LaraDock helps you run your Laravel App on Docker in seconds.
## Contents
LaraDock strives to make the development experience easier. It contains pre-packaged Docker Images that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, NGINX, MySQL, REDIS, and any other software on your local machine.
Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating-system-level virtualization on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
Seriously!!!
Vagrant gives you Virtual Machines in minutes while Docker gives you Virtual Containers in seconds.
Instead of providing a full Virtual Machines, like you get with Vagrant, Docker provides you lightweight Virtual Containers, that share the same kernel and allow to safely execute independent processes.
## Included Software
Docker Images:
- NGINX+PHP
- MySQL
- Redis
- Beanstalked
- Data Volume (for MySQL & Redis)
You can edit these images, on this repository https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images .
## Usage
1 - Install any version of Laravel, or use any of your existing Laravel projects.
2 - Clone the LaraDock repository, inside a docker folder, on the root directory of your Laravel project.
git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git docker3 - Find your Docker IP address.
- If you are on Linux OS: your IP Address is
127.0.0.1because the containers run directly on your localhost. - If you are on MAC or Windows and using the docker-machine: start your docker machine then type
docker-machine ip {vm-name-here}. (The default IP is 192.168.99.100) - If you are on MAC or Windows and using boot2docker: type
boot2docker ipwhen boot2docker is up.
4 - Open your hosts file /etc/hosts.
sudo nano /etc/hosts5 - Map your Docker IP to the laravel.dev domain, by adding the following to the hosts file.
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx laravel.devDon't forget to replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your Docker IP Address.
6 - From the new created docker folder in step 2, open the docker-compose.yml file to replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your Docker IP Adress as well.
7 - Open your Laravel's .env file and set the DB_HOST and the REDIS_HOST to laravel.dev instead of the default 127.0.0.1.
DB_HOST=laravel.dev
REDIS_HOST=laravel.devIf you don't find the REDIS_HOST variable in your .env file. Go to the database config file config/database.php and replace the 127.0.0.1 with laravel.dev for Redis like so:
'redis' => [
'cluster' => false,
'default' => [
'host' => 'laravel.dev',
'port' => 6379,
'database' => 0,
],
],If you want to use Redis for Caching and/or for Sessions Management. Open the .env file and set CACHE_DRIVER and SESSION_DRIVER to redis instead of the default file.
CACHE_DRIVER=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis8 - Finally run the containers. Make sure you are in the docker folder before running this command.
docker-compose upYou can run docker-compose up -d if you want to run the containers in the background.
"Note: Only the first time you run this command, it will take up to 5 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the images to your local machine.
Debugging: in case you faced a problem with docker mahcine here, try to running this command in your current terminal session
docker-machine env {vm-name-here}and theneval "$(docker-machine env {vm-name-here})".
9 - Open your browser and visit http://laravel.dev
Debugging: in case you faced an error here, it might be that you forget to provide some permissions for Laravel, so try running the following command on the Laravel root directory:
sudo chmod -R 777 storage && sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache.
## Documentation
docker psdocker-compose stopdocker-compose rm -fNote: Careful with this command as it will delete your Data Volume Container as well. (if you want to keep your Database data than you should stop each container by itself as follow):
docker stop {container-name}
To prevent a container (software) from running, open the docker-compose.yml file, and comment out the container section or remove it entirely.
To add an image (software), just edit the laradock/docker/docker-compose.yml and add your container details, to do so you need to be familiar with the docker compose file syntax.
To modify a container you can simply open the laradock/docker/docker-compose.yml and change everything you want.
Example: if you want to set the MySQL port to 3333, just replace the default port with yours:
ports:
- "3333:3306"To edit an image, and take full control of it:
- clone the LaraDock
docker-imagesrepository https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images - modify whichever
Dockfileyou want - from the modified image directory run
docker build -t {your-image-name} .
All the images are open source and hosted on the Docker Hub.
If you find any bug or you have and suggestion that can improve the performance of any image, please consider contributing. Thanks in advance.
The Log files are stored in the docker/logs directory.
## Contributing
This little project was built by one man who has a full time job and many responsibilities, so if you like this project and you find that it needs a bug fix or support for new software or upgrade for the current containers, or anything else.. Do not hesitate to contribute, you are more than welcome :)
The project consist of 2 repositories:
- Laradock: https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock
- Docker-Images: https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images
Issues on Github.
