LaraDock

LaraDock helps you run your Laravel App on Docker real quick.
It's like Laravel Homestead but for Docker instead of Vagrant.

## Contents

• Intro
• Supported Software (Docker Images)
• Requirements
• Usage
• Documentation
  • List current running Containers
  • Close all running Containers
  • Delete all existing Containers
  • Change the PHP Version
  • Use Redis in Laravel
  • Add/Remove a Docker Container
  • Add Docker Images
  • Edit a Docker Container
  • View the Log files
  • Upgrade the Docker Images
  • Edit a Docker Image

Intro

LaraDock strives to make the development experience easier. It contains pre-packaged Docker Images that provides you a wonderful development environment without requiring you to install PHP, NGINX, MySQL, REDIS, and any other software on your local machine.

What is Docker?

Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating-system-level virtualization on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

What is Laravel?

Seriously!!!

Why Docker not Vagrant!?

Vagrant gives you Virtual Machines in minutes while Docker gives you Virtual Containers in seconds.

Instead of providing a full Virtual Machines, like you get with Vagrant, Docker provides you lightweight Virtual Containers, that share the same kernel and allow to safely execute independent processes.

Supported Software (Docker Images)

• PHP 5.6 / NGINX
• PHP 5.5 / NGINX
• MySQL
• Redis
• Data Volume (for MySQL & Redis)
• Beanstalked

The Images links on Github
The Images links on Docker Hub

Requirements

• Laravel (Download)
• Docker Toolbox (Download)
• Git (Download)
• Composer (Download)

Usage

1 - Install any version of Laravel, or use any of your existing Laravel projects.

2 - Clone the LaraDock repository, inside a docker folder, on the root directory of your Laravel project.

git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git docker

3 - Find your Docker IP address.

• If you are on Linux OS: your IP Address is 127.0.0.1 because the containers run directly on your localhost.
• If you are on MAC or Windows and using the docker-machine: start your docker machine then type docker-machine ip {vm-name-here}. (The default IP is 192.168.99.100)
• If you are on MAC or Windows and using boot2docker: type boot2docker ip when boot2docker is up.

4 - Open your hosts file /etc/hosts.

sudo nano /etc/hosts

5 - Map your Docker IP to the laravel.dev domain, by adding the following to the hosts file.

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx    laravel.dev

Don't forget to replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your Docker IP Address.

6 - In the new created docker folder in step 2, open the docker-compose.yml file to replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with your Docker IP Adress as well.

7 - Open your Laravel's .env file and set the DB_HOST to laravel.dev instead of the default 127.0.0.1.

DB_HOST=laravel.dev

8 - Finally run the containers. Make sure you are in the docker folder before running this command.

docker-compose up -d

You can run docker-compose up (without -d) if you don't want to run the containers in the background.

"Note: Only the first time you run this command, it will take up to 5 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the images to your local machine.

Debugging: in case you faced a problem with the docker mahcine here, run this command in your current terminal session eval "$(docker-machine env {vm-name-here})".

9 - Open your browser and visit http://laravel.dev

Debugging: in case you faced an error here, it might be that you forget to provide some permissions for Laravel, so try running the following command on the Laravel root directory: sudo chmod -R 777 storage && sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache.

Follow @Mahmoud_Zalt

## Documentation

List current running Containers

docker ps

#### Close all running Containers ```bash docker-compose stop ```
#### Delete all existing Containers ```bash docker-compose rm -f ```

Note: Careful with this command as it will delete your Data Volume Container as well. (if you want to keep your Database data than you should stop each container by itself as follow):

docker stop {container-name}

#### Change the PHP Version By default **PHP 5.6** is running.
To change the default PHP version, simply open your `docker-compose.yml` file and edit this line:

image: laradock/php56nginx:latest

Supported versions:

• (PHP 5.5.*) laradock/php55nginx:latest
• (PHP 5.6.*) laradock/php56nginx:latest

Note: If you use this laradock/phpnginx image, it will pull from laradock/php56nginx.

#### Use Redis in Laravel

1 - Open your Laravel's .env file and set the REDIS_HOST to laravel.dev instead of the default 127.0.0.1.

REDIS_HOST=laravel.dev

If you don't find the REDIS_HOST variable in your .env file. Go to the database config file config/database.php and replace the 127.0.0.1 with laravel.dev for Redis like this:

'redis' => [
    'cluster' => false,
    'default' => [
        'host'     => 'laravel.dev',
        'port'     => 6379,
        'database' => 0,
    ],
],

To enable Redis Caching and/or for Sessions Management. Also from the .env file set CACHE_DRIVER and SESSION_DRIVER to redis instead of the default file.

CACHE_DRIVER=redis
SESSION_DRIVER=redis

Finally make sure you have the predis/predis package (~1.0) installed via Composer first.

composer require predis/predis:^1.0

#### Add Docker Images *(add a software to run with other Containers)*
To add an image (software), just edit the `docker-compose.yml` and add your container details, to do so you need to be familiar with the [docker compose file syntax](https://docs.docker.com/compose/yml/).
#### Edit a Docker Container (change Ports or Volumes) To modify a container you can simply open the `docker-compose.yml` and change everything you want.

Example: if you want to set the MySQL port to 3333, just replace the default port with yours:

  ports:
    - "3333:3306"

#### View the Log files The Log files are stored in the `docker/logs` directory.
#### Upgrade the Docker Images

By default docker-compose.yml is configured to use the latest stable version of the image (latest stable realease tag).

To use the latest build you can edit the docker-compose.yml file and replace the version number at the end of every image name with :latest
Example: change image: laradock/mysql:0.1.0 to image: laradock/mysql:latest

#### Add/Remove a Docker Container To prevent a container (software) from running, open the `docker-compose.yml` file, and comment out the container section or remove it entirely.
#### Edit a Docker Image (change some configuration in the image) To edit an image, and take full control of it:

1. Clone any Image from https://github.com/LaraDock
2. Modify the Dockfile
3. Run docker build -t {your-image-name} .

All the images are open source and hosted on the Docker Hub.

If you find any bug or you have and suggestion that can improve the performance of any image, please consider contributing. Thanks in advance.

## Contributing

This little project was built by one man who has a full time job and many responsibilities, so if you like this project and you find that it needs a bug fix or support for new software or upgrade for the current containers, or anything else.. Do not hesitate to contribute, you are more than welcome :)

All Docker Images can be found at https://github.com/LaraDock

Support

Issues on Github.

Questions?

Credits

License

MIT License (MIT)