LaraDock helps you run your Laravel App on Docker real quick.
It's like Laravel Homestead but for Docker instead of Vagrant.
## Contents
- Intro
- Supported Software (Docker Images)
- Requirements
- Screencast Tutorial
- Installation
- Usage
- Documentation
- List current running Containers
- Close all running Containers
- Delete all existing Containers
- Use Redis in Laravel
- Use custom Domain
- Change the PHP Version
- Add/Remove a Docker Container
- Add Docker Images
- Edit a Docker Container
- View the Log files
- Upgrade the Docker Images
- Edit a Docker Image
- Run a Docker Virtual Host
- Find your Docker IP Address
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.
- PHP 5.6 / NGINX
- PHP 5.5 / NGINX
- MySQL
- Redis
- Data Volume (for MySQL & Redis)
- Beanstalked
The Images links on Github
The Images links on Docker Hub
What is better than watching a video tutorial!!
If you prefer watch this screencast, for how to install and use this tool.
1 - Clone the LaraDock
repository, in any of your Laravel
projects:
git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git docker
Instead of git clone
you can use git submodule add
in case you are already using Git for your Laravel project (Recommended):
git submodule add https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git docker
These commands should create a
docker
folder, on the root directory of your Laravel project.
(Windows & MAC users) Make sure you have a running Docker Virtual Host on your machine first.
How to run a Docker Virtual Host?
1 - Open your Laravel's `.env` file and set the `DB_HOST` to your `{Docker-IP}`:
DB_HOST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
How to find my Docker IP Address?
2 - Run the containers:
*(Make sure you are in the `docker` folder before running this command)*
docker-compose up -d
Only the first time you run this command, it will take up to 5 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the Docker Images on your local machine.
3 - Open your browser and visit your `{Docker-IP}` address (`http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx`).
Debugging: in case you faced an error here, run this command from the Laravel root directory:
sudo chmod -R 777 storage && sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache
## Documentation
docker ps
#### Close all running Containers ```bash docker-compose stop ```
#### Delete all existing Containers ```bash docker-compose rm -f ```
Note: 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}
#### Use Redis in Laravel
Open your Laravel's .env
file and set the REDIS_HOST
to your Docker-IP
instead of the default 127.0.0.1
.
REDIS_HOST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
If 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 your Docker-IP
for Redis like this:
'redis' => [
'cluster' => false,
'default' => [
'host' => 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
'port' => 6379,
'database' => 0,
],
],
To enable Redis Caching and/or for Sessions Management. Also from the .env
file set CACHE_DRIVER
and SESSION_DRIVER
to redis
instead of the default file
.
CACHE_DRIVER=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis
Finally make sure you have the predis/predis
package (~1.0)
installed via Composer first.
composer require predis/predis:^1.0
#### Use custom Domain (instead of the Docker IP)
Assuming your custom domain is laravel.dev
and your current Docker-IP
is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
.
1 - Open your /etc/hosts
file and map your Docker IP
to the laravel.dev
domain, by adding the following:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx laravel.dev
2 - Open your Laravel's .env
file and replace the 127.0.0.1
default values with your {Docker-IP}
.
Example:
DB_HOST=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
3 - Open the nginx config file docker/settings/nginx/default
and add this in the server
:
server_name laravel.dev;
4 - Open your browser and visit {http://laravel.dev}
In case you faced any problem, try this additional step:
Open the
docker-compose.yml
and add the following tophp-nginx:
extra_hosts: - "laravel.dev:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
#### Change the PHP Version By default **PHP 5.6** is running.
To change the default PHP version, simply open your `docker-compose.yml` file and edit this line:
image: laradock/php56nginx:latest
Supported versions:
- (PHP 5.5.*) laradock/php55nginx:latest
- (PHP 5.6.*) laradock/php56nginx:latest
Note: If you use this laradock/phpnginx
image, it will pull from laradock/php56nginx
.
#### Add Docker Images *(add a software to run with other Containers)*
To add an image (software), just edit the `docker-compose.yml` and add your container details, to do so you need to be familiar with the [docker compose file syntax](https://docs.docker.com/compose/yml/).
#### Edit a Docker Container (change Ports or Volumes) To modify a container you can simply open the `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"
#### View the Log files The Log files are stored in the `docker/logs` directory.
#### Upgrade the Docker Images
By default docker-compose.yml
is configured to use the latest stable version of the image (latest stable realease tag
).
To use the latest build you can edit the docker-compose.yml
file and replace the version number at the end of every image name with :latest
Example: change image: laradock/mysql:0.1.0
to image: laradock/mysql:latest
#### Add/Remove a Docker Container To prevent a container (software) from running, open the `docker-compose.yml` file, and comment out the container section or remove it entirely.
#### Edit a Docker Image (change some configuration in the image) To edit an image, and take full control of it:
- Clone any Image from https://github.com/LaraDock
- Modify the
Dockfile
- 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.
#### Run a Docker Virtual Host
These steps are only for Windows & MAC users (Linux users don't need a virtual host):
1 - Run the default Host:
docker-machine start default
-
If the host "default" does not exist, create one using the command below, else skip it:
-
docker-machine create -d virtualbox default
2 - Run this command to configure your shell:
eval $(docker-machine env)
#### Find your Docker IP Address
On Windows & MAC:
docker-machine ip default
(The default IP is 192.168.99.100)
On Linux:
Your IP Address is 127.0.0.1
boot2docker users: run
boot2docker ip
(when boot2docker is up).
## 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 :)
All Docker Images can be found at https://github.com/LaraDock
Issues on Github.