This repository contains an example of Laravel (PHP Framework) application that runs in a docker container with RoadRunner (high-performance PHP application server) as a web server.

🔥 Features list

• For local application running, you need just two dependencies - installed docker and docker-compose (make is optional, but strongly recommended)
• PostgreSQL as a database and Redis as a cache & queue driver already configured
• One Dockerfile for local application development and running on production
• All used images are based on Alpine (lightweight and security-oriented linux distributive)
• Lightweight final docker image (compressed size ~65 Mb, ~16 downloadable layers)
• Unprivileged user is used by default
• Easy to update PHP and dependencies
• Ready to run Laravel task scheduling, queue workers, and many others on your choice
• Without file permission problems
• For cron jobs running supercronic is used (crontab-compatible job runner, designed specifically to run in containers)
• Self-signed SSL certificate for HTTPS support
• Enabled opcache and jit compiler for the performance of your application
• Composer dependencies caching using separate docker image layer
• Well-documented code
• HTTP server doesn't need to be restarted on source code changes
• Works much faster than php-fpm + nginx and easy to deploy
• Provided Makefile allows to perform familiar operations easy and fast
• Ready to run phpunit (with code coverage) and phpstan (static analysis tool for source code)
• GitHub actions for tests running, image building, etc.

How to use

If you want to integrate Docker + RoadRunner into an existing application, take a look at pull requests with the special label in the current repository - you can repeat these steps.

Another way is repository cloning, forking or usage this repository as a template for your application.

Don't forget to remove TestJob, TestController, and routes, that are declared for this controller in the routes/web.php file - it is used for internal application working tests.

First steps

Let's dive deeper and watch how to start application development, based on this template. First, we need to get the sources:

$ git clone https://github.com/tarampampam/laravel-roadrunner-in-docker.git
$ cd ./laravel-roadrunner-in-docker

After that - build image with our application and install composer dependencies:

$ make install
...
  - Installing spatie/laravel-ignition (2.0.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing symfony/psr-http-message-bridge (v2.1.4): Extracting archive
  - Installing spiral/goridge (v3.2.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing spiral/roadrunner-worker (v2.3.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing spiral/roadrunner-http (v2.2.0): Extracting archive
  - Installing nyholm/psr7 (1.5.1): Extracting archive
  - Installing spiral/roadrunner-laravel (v5.11.1): Extracting archive
Generating optimized autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
> @php artisan package:discover --ansi

   INFO  Discovering packages.

  laravel/sail ...................................................... DONE
  laravel/sanctum ................................................... DONE
  laravel/tinker .................................................... DONE
  nesbot/carbon ..................................................... DONE
  nunomaduro/collision .............................................. DONE
  nunomaduro/termwind ............................................... DONE
  spatie/laravel-ignition ........................................... DONE
  spiral/roadrunner-laravel ......................................... DONE

Make full application initialization:

$ make init
...
   INFO  Preparing database.

  Creating migration table ..................................... 15ms DONE

   INFO  Running migrations.

  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table ......................... 27ms DONE
  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table ............... 21ms DONE
  2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table ................... 17ms DONE
  2019_12_14_000001_create_personal_access_tokens_table ........ 30ms DONE

   INFO  Seeding database.
...

Start the application:

$ make up
...

    Navigate your browser to ⇒ http://127.0.0.1:8080 or https://127.0.0.1:8443

Voila! You can open http://127.0.0.1:8080 (or https://127.0.0.1:8443) in your browser and source code in your favorite IDE.

For watching all supported make commands execute make without parameters inside the project directory:

$ make

Available commands:
help               Show this help
install            Install all app dependencies
shell              Start shell into app container
init               Make full application initialization
...

How to

Open the shell in the application container?

Execute in your terminal:

$ make shell

In this shell, you can use composer, php, and any other tools, which are installed into a docker image.

Watch logs?

$ docker-compose logs -f

All messages from all containers output will be listed here.

Install composer dependency?

As it was told above - execute make shell and after that composer require %needed/package%.

Add my own make command?

Append into Makefile something like:

your-command: ## Your command help
	/bin/your/app -goes -here

Tab character in front of your command is mandatory!

Read more about makefiles here.

To Do

• Describe front-end development/building

Useful links

• https://habr.com/ru/post/461687/ ^ru
• https://pythonspeed.com/articles/faster-multi-stage-builds/

Troubleshooting

MacOS Unprivileged User

This repo was created for Linux users. It maps /etc/passwd in docker-compose.yml to set the current host user for the Docker containers.

MacOS doesn't use /etc/passwd unless it's operating in single-user mode. Instead, it uses a system called Open Directory.

If you do make shell; whoami and get user errors, then you can fix by running ./scripts/fix_mac_user.sh. This script will create a mac_passwd file that plays nice with /etc/passwd used by docker-compose.yml under the volumes mapping section.

#!/bin/sh
// File: ./scripts/fix_mac_user.sh

SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"
cd $SCRIPT_DIR/../
echo "$USER:x:$(id -u):$(id -g):ns,,,:$HOME:/bin/bash" > mac_passwd
sed -i.backup 's~/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd:ro~./mac_passwd:/etc/passwd:ro~' docker-compose.yml

Support

If you find any package errors, please, make an issue in current repository.

License

This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.