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Setup Docker with PHP for Laravel PART 2

root
|__ docker
|        |_ dev
|             |_ nginx.dockerfile
|             |_ php.dockerfile
|        |_ prod
|             |_ nginx.prod.dockerfile
|             |_ php.prod.dockerfile
|__ nginx
|       |_ default.conf
|       |_ default.prod.conf
|       |_ laravel-docker.test.pem
|       |_ laravel-docker.test-key.pem
|_ opcache.ini

Checkout PART1 to setup NGINX.

We will create a Dockerfile with PHP for both DEV and PROD, building them on top of each other until we create a development environment for Laravel.

SETUP FOR DEV

php.dockerfile

FROM php:8-fpm-alpine — we are using PHP 8 from Linux Alpine

ENV — we are creating two environmental variables

RUN adduser -g ${PHPGROUP} -s /bin/sh -D ${PHPUSER} — we add a “laravel” user to console without any password

RUN sed -i — we are replacing the “user = www-data” and “group = www-data” with our user, “laravel”

RUN mkdir -p /var/www/html/public — we create a public directory on the web server

RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql — we are installing pdo and pdo_mysql using the docker-php-ext-install utility

SETUP FOR PROD

php.prod.dockerfile

For production we are adding opcache to our server so we do not make a call to the server on every request. This is pretty standard.

opcache.ini

And this opcache.ini config is a standard boilerplate. You should customize it as to meet your needs but this works for most of apps.