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This repository contains everything you need to get started to run a Laravel 5 / 6 / 7 application with Docker in 3 minutes. It is made for legacy projects that cannot be upgraded to Laravel 8 in near future but would like to use docker.

This package is not needed for Laravel 8 and upwards, as Laravel versions from 8 upwards ships with a wrapper for docker, called Laravel Sail.

Table of Contents

• Setup
  • 1. Copy files
  • 2. Execute Docker
  • 3. Run Composer
• Enhancements

Setup

Its required that one has docker-compose on the machine installed.

Step 1: Copy files in your directory

We assume that you add this to an existing project, as since Laravel 8 docker ships in by default.

Copy all files except .env and readme.md in your current project folder. Overwrite the credentions from your .env locally with those provided here. If you dont want to overwrite database name and user, then please adjust the file in docker-compose/mysql/init/01-databaes.sql according to your needs.

Step 2: Execute docker

Run container

docker-compose up -d --build

this may take a moment. After the container has been setup, check the status with

docker-compose ps

you should see three containers are running.

Step 3: Install Composer dependencies

Bash into your container:

docker-compose exec app bash

Install composer dependencies (this may also take a moment):

composer install

and finally generate a key

php artisan key:generate

🎉 Congratulations. Your app should now be accessible under localhost:8005

Enhancements

I like to use the following aliases to avoid going into the container every time:

alias phpunit="docker-compose exec app vendor/bin/phpunit"
alias artisan="docker-compose exec app php artisan"
alias composer="docker-compose exec app composer"

Also, if you want to keep you laravel docker container running after a restart of your computer, you may add

restart: unless-stopped

to each of your services (app,db,nginx).