Symfony Flex: dockerized - 🐋 = 💕

This is a template for bootstrapping your own Symfony Flex applications in a Docker environment. The primary intention here is to provide a fully self-contained environment.

What this environment provides

Out of the box you will get containers optimized for size, using Alpine Linux with the following components:

• MariaDB, version 10.5.9
• Postgres, version 12.7
• Redis, version 6.2.4
• PHP with FPM, version 7.4.21
• Composer, version 2.1.3
• NodeJS with Yarn, version 14.17.0
• Nginx, version 1.20.1
• Symfony, version 5

By default this environment does not contain any Symfony or NodeJS project, as empty projects will automatically be bootstrapped upon starting the container builds for the 1st time.

Using the environment

All the usual Symfony and Composer commands can and should be used with docker / docker-compose.

This repository also works when using podman / podman-compose.

Customizing for development

We provide a sample docker-compose.override.yaml.dist that can be used to customize container builds for e.g. developing your applications. In the given example live code will be mounted as Docker volume instead of having the code only contained within the built containers.

To start working on a project, copy docker-compose.override.yaml.dist to docker-compose.override.yaml and adapt it for your specific project.

Configuring the environment

A sample .env.dist file is provided containing settings for MariaDB, Symfony Flex specific settings will be added automatically upon installing recipes.

Building the containers

docker-compose build

Starting the environment

docker-compose up -d

Shutting down and destroying the environment

docker-compose down --remove-orphans --volumes

If you want to retain volumes, remove --volumes from the above command.

Executing Composer commands

docker-compose exec php composer ...

Executing Symfony commands

docker-compose exec php bin/console ...