<p>Laradock is well known in the Laravel community, as the project started with single focus on running Laravel projects on Docker. Later and due to the large adoption from the PHP community, it started supporting other PHP projects like Symfony, CodeIgniter, WordPress, Drupal&hellip;</p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s see how easy it is to install <code>NGINX</code>, <code>PHP</code>, <code>Composer</code>, <code>MySQL</code>, <code>Redis</code> and <code>Beanstalkd</code>:</p>
<p>Laradock introduces the <strong>Workspace</strong> Image, as a development environment.
It contains a rich set of helpful tools, all pre-configured to work and integrate with almost any combination of Containers and tools you may choose.</p>
<p>You can choose, which tools to install in your workspace container and other containers, from the <code>.env</code> file.</p>
<p>If you modify <code>docker-compose.yml</code>, <code>.env</code> or any <code>dockerfile</code> file, you must re-build your containers, to see those effects in the running instance.</p>
<h2 id="what-is-docker">What is Docker?</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.docker.com">Docker</a> is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization">operating-system-level virtualization</a> on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.</p>
<h2 id="why-docker-not-vagrant">Why Docker not Vagrant!?</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.vagrantup.com">Vagrant</a> creates Virtual Machines in minutes while Docker creates Virtual Containers in seconds.</p>
<p>Instead of providing a full Virtual Machines, like you get with Vagrant, Docker provides you <strong>lightweight</strong> Virtual Containers, that share the same kernel and allow to safely execute independent processes.</p>
<p>In addition to the speed, Docker gives tons of features that cannot be achieved with Vagrant.</p>
<p>Most importantly Docker can run on Development and on Production (same environment everywhere). While Vagrant is designed for Development only, (so you have to re-provision your server on Production every time).</p>