Docker-compose local development boilerplate for Laravel

This is a boilerplate to be used only in local environment for quick containerization. Use at your own risk.

File structure

src => Main directory, where your project should be
config => Configuration directory for different services to be used in docker-compose.yml file
.env.example => Project global config file
init.sh => Init script for the entire app (NB: Only for first time use! It will override .env if there's such file in project root)
docker-compose.yml => Main docker-compose config for local environment

Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Copy/paste your Laravel project in src directory - this directory contents will be linked to containerized app service.
3. Add execution rights to init.sh file
4. Run ./init.sh to copy .env.example to .env which will be used by Docker to name containers properly. It will also launch the containers.
5. Compare the database credentials throughout mysql init sql file, project root .env and your Laravel app .env
6. When all that is done, launch http://localhost to bless your eyes with your Laravel app.

Running commands within containers

For now, if you want to run any commands through appropriate containers, you have to prefix your commands with docker-compose exec [service] [command you want to run], for example, docker-compose exec app php artisan migrate.

There's also an option to just go into container with bash (or whatever shell the container posesses) and run commands you need, like docker-compose exec bash and in container php artisan migrate.

To-do for now

• Command delegator script for running commands within appropriate containers
• Global search/replace from project root .env file so that there doesn't have to be manual search & replace for all the values
• Look to see if something differs for containerizing Symfony projects