Creating Laravel application and configuring the environment the environment with Docker in MacOs

Dmytro Tus

Full Stack Web developer

Today I will explain how to run Laravel application using Docker.

Generally we need different services for run this application. They are:

• Web Server ( in our case it is Nginx )
• PHP programming language support
• Database server ( in our case it is MariaDB )

So I have made docker-compose.yml file with all settings which are needed to run the app. You can copy/paste the settings and run command

docker compose up -d

The code from docker-compose.yml file is below:

version: '3.9'
services:
  # nginx
  nginx-service:
    image: nginx:stable-alpine
    container_name: nginx-container-linkedin1
    ports:
      - "7758:80"
    volumes:
      - ./app:/var/www/project
      - ./nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
    depends_on:
      - php8-service
      - mariadb
  # php
  php8-service:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: ./php/Dockerfile
    container_name: php8-container-linkedin1
    ports:
      - "9054:9000"
    volumes:
      - ./app:/var/www/project

  # mysql
  mariadb:
    image: mariadb
    container_name: mariadb-linkedin1
    ports:
      - "3358:3306"
    volumes:
      - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    command: --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password --character-set-server=utf8mb4 --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
    #restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_USER: root
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: root

In the video below you can see step by step instruction with running laravel application on you machine using Docker environment.