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title: Introduction
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type: index
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---
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Laradock strives to make the PHP development experience easier and faster.
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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 machines.
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Laradock is configured to run Laravel Apps by default, and it can be modified to run all kinds of PHP Apps (Symfony, CodeIgniter, WordPress, Drupal...).
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## Quick Overview
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Let's see how easy it is to install `NGINX`, `PHP`, `Composer`, `MySQL`, `Redis` and `beanstalkd`:
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1 - Clone Laradock inside your PHP project:
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```shell
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git clone https://github.com/Laradock/laradock.git
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```
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2 - Enter the laradock folder and rename `env-example` to `.env`.
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```shell
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cp env-example .env
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```
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3 - Run your containers:
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```shell
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docker-compose up -d nginx mysql redis beanstalkd
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```
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3 - Open your project's `.env` file and set the following:
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```shell
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DB_HOST=mysql
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REDIS_HOST=redis
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QUEUE_HOST=beanstalkd
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```
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4 - Open your browser and visit localhost: `http://localhost`.
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```shell
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That's it! enjoy :)
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```
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<a name="what-is-docker"></a>
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## What is Docker?
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[Docker](https://www.docker.com) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization) on Linux, Mac OS and Windows.
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<a name="why-docker-not-vagrant"></a>
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## Why Docker not Vagrant!?
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[Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com) creates Virtual Machines in minutes while Docker creates Virtual Containers in seconds.
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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.
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In addition to the speed, Docker gives tons of features that cannot be achieved with Vagrant.
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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).
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<a name="laradock-vs-homestead"></a>
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## Laradock VS Homestead (For Laravel Developers)
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> Laradock It's like Laravel Homestead but for Docker instead of Vagrant.
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Laradock and [Homestead](https://laravel.com/docs/master/homestead) both give you complete virtual development environments. (Without the need to install and configure every single software on your own Operating System).
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- Homestead is a tool that controls Vagrant for you (using Homestead special commands). And Vagrant manages your Virtual Machine.
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- Laradock is a tool that controls Docker for you (using Docker & Docker Compose official commands). And Docker manages your Virtual Containers.
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Running a virtual container is much faster than running a full virtual Machine. Thus **Laradock is much faster than Homestead**.
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<a name="Demo"></a>
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## Demo Video
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What's better than a **Demo Video**:
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- Laradock [v4.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQii1jDa96Y)
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- Laradock [v2.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DamFMczwDA)
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- Laradock [v0.3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGkyO6Is_aI)
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- Laradock [v0.1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQsHe6oF80)
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<a name="features"></a>
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## Features
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- Easy switch between PHP versions: 7.0, 5.6, 5.5...
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- Choose your favorite database engine: MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB...
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- Run your own combination of software: Memcached, HHVM, Beanstalkd...
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- Every software runs on a separate container: PHP-FPM, NGINX, PHP-CLI...
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- Easy to customize any container, with simple edit to the `Dockerfile`.
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- All Images extends from an official base Image. (Trusted base Images).
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- Pre-configured NGINX for Laravel.
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- Easy to apply configurations inside containers.
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- Clean and well structured Dockerfiles (`Dockerfile`).
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- Latest version of the Docker Compose file (`docker-compose`).
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- Everything is visible and editable.
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- Fast Images Builds.
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- More to come every week..
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<a name="Supported-Containers"></a>
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## Supported Software (Containers)
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- **Database Engines:**
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- MySQL
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- MariaDB
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- MongoDB
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- Neo4j
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- RethinkDB
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- PostgreSQL
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- Postgres Postgis
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- **Cache Engines:**
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- Redis
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- Memcached
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- Aerospike
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- **PHP Servers:**
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- NGINX
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- Apache2
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- Caddy
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- **PHP Compilers:**
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- PHP-FPM
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- HHVM
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- **Message Queuing Systems:**
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- Beanstalkd
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- Beanstalkd Console
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- RabbitMQ
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- RabbitMQ Console
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- **Tools:**
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- PhpMyAdmin
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- Adminer
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- PgAdmin
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- ElasticSearch
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- Selenium
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- Certbot
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- Mailhog
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- Minio
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- Workspace
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- PHP7-CLI
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- Composer
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- Git
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- Linuxbrew
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- Node
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- Gulp
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- SQLite
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- xDebug
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- Envoy
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- Deployer
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- Vim
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- Yarn
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- ... Many other supported tools are not documented. (Will be updated soon)
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>If you can't find your Software, build it yourself and add it to this list. Contributions are welcomed :)
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<a name="Chat"></a>
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## Chat with us
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You are welcome to join our chat room on Gitter.
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[](https://gitter.im/Laradock/laradock?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
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