Simple Laravel app container

This image is based on the official php image for mor info click this link https://hub.docker.com/_/php

In the box:

1. Apache
2. Composer
3. PHP:7.4
4. mlocati php-extension-installer (click for more details...)

Default environment variables apart from the default php container environment

#   Set to production if you deploy
1.  APP_ENV=null

#   Location of your source code optional
2.  WORKING_DIRECTORY=/usr/src/myapp

Usage:

1. Docker file implementation

FROM raven1994/laravel-app:latest

# Copy source code to default app path
COPY . $WORKING_DIRECTORY

# write access to the storage and cache folders
RUN chgrp -R www-data $WORKING_DIRECTORY/storage $WORKING_DIRECTORY/bootstrap/cache
RUN chmod -R ug+rwx $WORKING_DIRECTORY/storage $WORKING_DIRECTORY/bootstrap/cache

# install packages
RUN composer install -n --no-dev

2. docker-compose

version: "3.8"

services: 
    app:
        image: mywebapp
        ports: 
            - 8000:80
        volumes: 
            - ./:/usr/src/myapp

Installing extensions

This image utilises mlocati/php-extension-installer . Install your extensions as shown below.

FROM raven1994/laravel-app:latest

# install extenstions
RUN install-php-extensions gmp zip

RUN composer install -n --no-dev

There are better options out there like Velocity , laradock, Homestead . I just love less in my environments