Local PHP development environment based of docker containers

Simple PHP local development environment for unix/linux based OS.

• App container : an alpine based web app container with php7, mysql, pgsql, mongodb, sqlite, pdo, etc php drivers served through php-fpm.
• Server container : an alpine based nginx server with dynamic server name routing.
  • named project url with .box and .lara (for laravel apps)
  • dns routing through host dnsmasq and .box/.lara resolvers
• Gearman container : for background job processing
• RDBMS : alpine based mariadb sql database
• Nosql : bionic based mongodb container
• PgSql : alpine based PostreSql container

How to setup

Prerequisites

• Install docker
• Install docker-compose
• Install dnsmasq. A lightweight DNS, DHCP manager.
• Install git

Setup

• Configure dnsmasq to resolve .box and .lara (for laravel apps) to localhost/127.0.0.1

  • Add these lines in your dnsmasq.conf file (general location /etc/dnsmasq.conf)

  address=/.box/127.0.0.1
  address=/.lara/127.0.0.1
  

  • Create two files box and lara in /etc/resolver (create resolver dir if not exist) with content nameserver 127.0.0.1
  • start and enable dnsmasq service to start on system start

  sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq.service
  sudo systemctl start dnsmasq.service
  

• Clone repo

  git clone repo folder
  cd folder
  

• Run docker-compose up to start local php dev env

• Type test.box in your fav browser to verify the setup