Laravel homestead-docker

Laravel homestead-docker

Create a homestead docker container for your development env. (Adapted from laravel homestead provisionning script)

Install docker && docker compose

please refer to these tutorials:

• install docker (https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/)

  curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
  

• install docker compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)

  sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.17.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
  

Pull homestead image

docker pull shincoder/homestead:php7.3

Clone && Edit docker-compose.yml

git clone https://github.com/shincoder/homestead-docker.git

rename docker-compose.dist.yml to docker-compose.yml then edit the file with you own paths and ports.

Start your containers

There are only two containers to run. web container ( includes everything except your database ), and mariadb container.

sudo docker-compose up -d

Increase PHP memory limit

Increase the limit in your php.ini file /etc/php/7.3/cli/php.ini:

; Use -1 for unlimited or define an explicit value like 2G
memory_limit = -1

SSH into the container (password: secret):

ssh -p 2222 homestead@localhost

Add a virtual host

Assuming you mapped your apps folder to /apps (you can change mappings in the docker-compose.yml file, it’s prefered to use absolute paths), you can do:

cd /
sudo ./serve.sh myapp.dev /apps/myapp/public
sudo supervisorctl restart all

In the host, update /etc/hosts to include your app domain:

127.0.0.1               myapp.dev

Upgrade composer to version 2 (optional)

sudo composer self-update --stable

That’s it

Our web container starts nginx, php-fpm, redis, beanstalk. and has npm, gulp, bower…etc

Notes

• Since the web and database containers are linked you can use mysql as the host in your .env file with an empty password to properly connect to your database.

  DB_HOST=mysql
  DB_PORT=3306
  DB_USERNAME=root
  DB_PASSWORD=