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How to install Laradock on your machine?





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1. Introduction

Laradock is a full PHP development environment based on Docker.
Supporting a variety of common services, all pre-configured to provide a full PHP development environment.

Features

  1. Easy switch between PHP versions: 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 5.6…
  2. Choose your favorite database engine: MySQL, Postgres, MariaDB…
  3. Run your own stack: Memcached, HHVM, RabbitMQ…
  4. Each software runs on its own container: PHP-FPM, NGINX, PHP-CLI…
  5. Easy to customize any container, with simple edit to the Dockerfile.
  6. All Images extends from an official base Image. (Trusted base Images).
  7. Pre-configured NGINX to host any code at your root directory.
  8. Can use Laradock per project, or single Laradock for all projects.
  9. Easy to install/remove software’s in Containers using environment variables.
  10. Clean and well structured Dockerfiles (Dockerfile).
  11. Latest version of the Docker Compose file (docker-compose).
  12. Everything is visible and editable.
  13. Fast Images Builds.

Use Docker First - Then Learn About It Later

Quick Overview

Let’s see how easy it is to setup our demo stack PHP, NGINX, MySQL, Redis and Composer:
1 - Clone Laradock inside your PHP project:
git clone https://github.com/Laradock/laradock.git
2 - Enter the laradock folder and rename env-example to .env.
cp env-example .env
3 - Run your containers: 

  1. (Make sure you already have installed Docker on your PC - Click here to install Docker)
  2. (Make sure you already have installed Docker Compose on your PC - Click here to install Docker Compose)
docker-compose up -d nginx mysql

OR

docker-compose up -d nginx mysql phpmyadmin redis workspace
4 - Open your project’s .env file and set the following:
DB_HOST=mysql
REDIS_HOST=redis
QUEUE_HOST=beanstalkd
5 - Open your browser and visit localhost: http://localhost.
That's it! enjoy :)

Note : Paste this code to your terminal from your Laradock Folder - To run Laradock on your machine - sudo docker-compose up -d nginx redis laravel-horizon mysql

Credit : https://laradock.io/

This is for personal documentation purposes.



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