Dockerize an existing Laravel application with docker-compose

in the main folder of your Laravel app, create a file named Dockerfile and insert this code:

FROM php:7
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y openssl zip unzip git
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql
WORKDIR /app
COPY . /app
RUN composer install
CMD php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8181
EXPOSE 8181

In the same main folder of Dockerfile, create a file named docker-compose.yml and insert this code:

version: '2'
services:
  app:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "8009:8000"
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    env_file: .env
    working_dir: /app
    command: bash -c 'php artisan migrate && php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0'
    depends_on:
      - db
    links:
      - db
  db:
    image: "mysql:5.7"
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=yourpassword
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=yourdbname
      - MYSQL_USER=root
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=yourpassword
    volumes:
      - ./data/:/var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"
  phpmyadmin:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8090:80
    environment:
      PMA_HOST: db
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: yourpassword

Open the terminal command line and go inside the laravel folder, and launch this commands:

docker.compose build

docker-compose up -d

if have need to create and migrate the db, or use other commands, launch the Laravel commands in this way:
docker-compose run app php artisan

The app will available at the address http://0.0.0.0:8009

Comments

[Hamza Rana]

Warning: require(/app/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /app/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/app/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /app/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
ERROR: 255

Help please. Tried these dockerfile and docker-compose.yml on 2 different laravel projects to no avail.

[Pierangelo]

this tutorial was based on old version of laravel, what version are you using?
Probably you must update in Dockerfile some version of PHP etc...

[Hamza Rana]

8.56 Laravel. I was able to fix this issue by adding "composer install" in Dockerfile RUN command. Thanks

[KKR77]

I need to dockerize my Laravel 4.1 Project with PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.7.20. when I tried using above docker file and compose.yml file , it ended with this error message,

failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c composer install" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

how should I solve this..?

[Pierangelo]

probably tou need to use an Image with php5.6 or build a new one using ubuntu and installing php5.6... something like that:

`

Use an official PHP 5.6 base image

FROM php:5.6-apache

Install required PHP extensions

RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y \
libmcrypt-dev \
mysql-client \
libmagickwand-dev --no-install-recommends && \
pecl install imagick && \
docker-php-ext-enable imagick && \
docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql mcrypt

Install Composer

RUN curl -sS getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Set up the working directory

WORKDIR /var/www/html

Copy the Laravel application files

COPY . /var/www/html

Install Laravel dependencies

RUN composer install --no-scripts

Set proper permissions

RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/storage

Expose port 80 and start Apache

EXPOSE 80
CMD ["apache2-foreground"]
`

[KKR77]

Thank you