LaraDock

What is this?

LaraDock is a laravel installation (v5.1.10) pre-configured to work on Docker.

What is Docker?

Docker is a Linux container, written in Go and based on LXC and AUFS.

What is Laravel?

Are you serious!!

Why Docker not Vagrant?!

Vagrant gives you Virtual Machines in minutes while Docker gives you Linux 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.

What's next?

LaraDock strives to make the development experience easier. And it is inspired by Laravel Homestead.

In the near future LaraDock will become a stand-alone package that manages your Docker Virtual Containers as Homestead does with your Vagrant Virtual Machines.

Questions?

If you have any questions please share it with us on or email me on (mahmoud@zalt.me).

Contents

• Highlights
• Requirements
• Usage
• Documentation

Highlights

Included Images:

• NGINX+PHP
• MySQL
• Redis
• Beanstalked
• Data Volume (for MySQL & Redis)

Note: PHP and NGINX are in one container, I will split them whenever I see the need for it.

Requirements

• Docker toolbox (Download) this includes:
  • VirtualBox
  • Docker Client
  • Docker Machine
  • Docker Compose (Required)
  • Docker Kitematic (Not Important)
• Git (Download)
• Composer (Download)

Note: Git & Composer can be installed on Docker Containers if you don't want to install them on your machine. (But you have to do this yourself for now).

Usage

1 - To start you first need to clone the project

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

2 - Inside laradock there are 2 directories (Laravel and Docker) let's start with Laravel

	cd laradock/laravel

3 - Install the Composer packages

	composer install

4 - Provide some permissions

	sudo chmod -R 777 storage && sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap

5 - Now let's start with the Docker stuff

	cd ../docker

6 - Edit the hosts file on your machine, to map your Docker IP to the laravel.dev domain, example:

	192.168.5x.10x  laravel.dev   # (make sure to set your Docker IP)

7 - Finally run the containers and start coding.

"Note: Only the first you run this command will take up to 7 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the images to your local machine, Only once in life.

	docker-compose up -d

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

You should see a page like this:

Documentation

Close all running Containers

docker-compose stop

Delete all existing Containers

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}

Delete an Image (remove the unused softwar)

To delete an image (software), just edit the laradock/docker/docker-compose.yml file.

Example: Assume you want to stop the Beanstalkd Container.

Open the docker-compose.yml file, and comment out the beanstalkd section:

# Beanstalkd Container #-----------------------------------
# beanstalkd:
#  image: laradock/beanstalkd:latest
#  container_name: beanstalkd
#  ports:
#    - "11300:11300"
#  privileged: true

Add an Image (add a software to run with other Containers)

To add an image (software), just edit the laradock/docker/docker-compose.yml and add your container details, to do so you need to be familiar with the docker compose file syntax.

Edit an existing Image (change some configuration in the image)

To edit an image, and take full control of it:

1. clone the LaraDock Images repository https://github.com/LaraDock/images
2. modify whichever Dockfile you want
3. from the modified image directory run docker build -t {your-image-name} .

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

All contributions are welcomed.

Support

Issues on Github.

Credits

License

MIT License (MIT)