PHP

This container is intended to run Laravel application's queues, cron, etc. and thus comes with a few items to assist:

Composer
PHP Extensions
- mbstring
- pdo_mysql
- gd
- pcntl (Required for queue workers as of Laravel 5.3)

spatie/laravel-backup Dependencies

PHP extension zip
mysql-client for mysqldump support

For a container to run nginx/fpm for Laravel applications, check out bkuhl/fpm-nginx.

Crons, Queue Workers and Migrations

Overwrite the container's default command to perform various Laravel tasks.

Cron container: use command crond -f -d 8
Queue worker container: use command php /var/www/html/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3 --timeout=0
Migrations container: use command php /var/www/html/artisan migrate --force

Example Dockerfile

FROM bkuhl/php:8

WORKDIR /var/www/html

# Copy the application files to the container
ADD --chown=www-data:www-data  . /var/www/html

USER www-data

# production-ready dependencies
RUN composer install --no-interaction --optimize-autoloader --no-dev --no-cache --prefer-dist