Testing Docker setup for Laravel Development

Install project in development

Clone this repo and name it oppi git clone <this repo url> testing-docker
Download, install and launch Docker Community Edition
cd into the project directory testing-docker
Here you have two choices, if you have composer installed or not:
If you have composer installed, run composer install
If you don't have composer installed you can run it through docker, it will take some time but you at least wont have to install composer. Run docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/app composer/composer install. A tip for the future is to make an alias for alias composerDocker="docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/app composer/composer" that way you can write only composerDocker install etc to use composer this way.
Build and run the docker, this will take a couple of minutes depending on bandwidth and computer speed: docker-compose up this command will, after installation, be showing a live console from the development server.
Migrate and seed the database but first you have to read more about how it works.. When you know how to run commands on the server: run php artisan migrate --seed
Access the page by visiting 0.0.0.0 in your browser.

Login

Email: admin@admin.com Pw: 1234 Email: user@user.com Pw: 1234

Running commands on the server

For example php artisan migrate To run commands on the server you have to access the server environment. You can access the server and run commands directly to it by

docker-compose exec app <your-commands-here>

That means that we can run

docker-compose exec app php artisan migrate

If we want to, we can also "login" to the server and use it through the command line freely:

docker-compose exec app bash

Now you may run any command as if you where on the actual server.

Tip!

Add an aliases to make life easier, for example:

alias phpd="docker-compose exec app php"

So, when you run phpd artisan migrate you run it on the server

Access the database locally

You may access the database through third party program like Sequel Pro.