Dockerize Laravel

Docker compose to setup nginx, php and mysql for laravel 7.16.1.

Directory Structure

laravel-docker
├── docker
│   ├── mysql
│   │   └── based.sql
│   ├── nginx
│   │   └── nginx.conf
│   └── php
│       └── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── init-storage
│   └── uploads
└── reset-db.sh

Images

1. nginx → nginx:latest
2. php → php:7.4-fpm
3. mysql → mysql:5.7

Setup Initial DB

You can choose between using seeder or your own sql file for initial database.

Using Seeder

1. Open file docker/php/Dockerfile and uncomment lines 30-32

   Before:
   30 # RUN php artisan migrate:reset
   31 # RUN php artisan migrate
   32 # RUN php artisan db:seed
   
   After:
   30 RUN php artisan migrate:reset
   31 RUN php artisan migrate
   32 RUN php artisan db:seed

2. Open file docker-compose.yml and comment line 11

   Before:
   11 - ./docker/mysql/based.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/based.sql
   
   After:
   11 # - ./docker/mysql/based.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/based.sql

Using SQL File

1. Make sure lines 30-32 in file docker/php/Dockerfile are commented

   30 # RUN php artisan migrate:reset
   31 # RUN php artisan migrate
   32 # RUN php artisan db:seed

2. Make sure line 11 in file docker-compose.yml is uncommented

   11 - ./docker/mysql/based.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/based.sql

3. Copy your sql file to docker/mysql with based.sql as a file name.

Setup Initial storage

In this deployment we use command php artisan storage:link to connect public directory with storage directory.

Since:
    public/storage → storage/app/public
Therefore:
    public/storage/uploads ≍ storage/app/public/uploads

To setup initial files for storage directory just paste your file into init-storage/uploads and Dockerfile will copy those file when creating php image.

Deployment using Docker

1. Deploy nginx, php-fpm, and mysql using docker-compose

   docker-compose up -d

2. Stop all container

   docker stop leru_nginx leru_mysql leru_php_fpm

3. Remove all container

   docker rm leru_nginx leru_mysql leru_php_fpm

4. Remove php-fpm image

   docker rmi laravel-docker_php_fpm

5. Reset mysql data

   bash reset-db.sh