Docker environment for a Symfony5 project

Add to your project

Move the docker-compose.yml and the folder named docker_build containing nginx and php-fpm config for it to the root of your Symfony project.

Ensure the webserver config on docker\nginx.conf is correct for your project. For instance, for Symfony 4 or 5 it should look for the public/index.php, instead of the web/app.php from Symfony2 and Symfony3

Note: you may place the files elsewhere in your project. Make sure you modify the locations for the php-fpm dockerfile, the php.ini overrides and nginx config on docker-compose.yml if you do so.

How to run

Dependencies:

• Docker engine v1.13 or higher. Your OS provided package might be a little old, if you encounter problems, do upgrade. See https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation
• Docker compose v1.12 or higher. See docs.docker.com/compose/install

Once you're done, simply cd to your project and run docker-compose up -d. This will initialise and start all the containers, then leave them running in the background.

Docker compose cheatsheet

Note: you need to cd first to where your docker-compose.yml file lives.

• Start containers in the background: docker-compose up -d
• Start containers on the foreground: docker-compose up. You will see a stream of logs for every container running.
• Stop containers: docker-compose stop
• Kill containers: docker-compose kill
• View container logs: docker-compose logs
• Execute command inside of container: docker-compose exec SERVICE_NAME COMMAND where COMMAND is whatever you want to run. Examples:
  • Shell into the PHP container, docker-compose exec --user 1000 php bash
  • Run symfony console, docker-compose exec --user 1000 php bin/console
  • Open a postgresql shell, docker-compose exec --user postgres db psql
    • or if user is not postgres: docker-compose exec db psql --user admin postgres

Docker general cheatsheet

Note: these are global commands and you can run them from anywhere.

• To clear containers: docker rm -f $(docker ps -a -q)
• To clear images: docker rmi -f $(docker images -a -q)
• To clear volumes: docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -q)
• To clear networks: docker network rm $(docker network ls | tail -n+2 | awk '{if($2 !~ /bridge|none|host/){ print $1 }}')

Disclaimer: This project has been generated on phpdocker.io

My installation

• Build containers: docker-compose build
• Run containers: docker-compose up -d
• Enter in php container docker-compose exec --user 1000 php bash
  • Install Symfony: composer create-project symfony/skeleton symfony
  • Move project in parent (app): mv symfony/* . && mv symfony/.* . && rm -Rf symfony
  • Add Symfony requirements:

  composer require annotations
  composer require --dev profiler
  composer require twig
  composer require orm
  composer require form
  composer require form validator
  composer require maker-bundle
  composer require security-csrf
  

• Stop containers: docker-compose down
• Adapt querystring in ./app/.env:

  --- DATABASE_URL="postgresql://db_user:db_password@127.0.0.1:5432/db_name?serverVersion=13&charset=utf8"
  +++ DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:secret@db:5432/postgres?serverVersion=12&charset=utf8"
  

• Run containers: docker-compose up -d
• Enter in php container docker-compose exec --user 1000 php bash
  • Test psql connection: psql --host db --user postgres --password postgres
  • Create database schema: bin/console doctrine:schema:create

Let's go !

• Let's create first object:
  • Create entity: bin/console make:entity Beer
  • Create CRUD on entity: bin/console make:crud Beer
  • See sql: bin/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql
  • Control migrations: bin/console doctrine:migrations:status
  • Generate migration file: bin/console doctrine:migrations:diff
  • See migration file: cat migrations/Version20210218160541.php
  • Migrate: bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
  • Control migrations: bin/console doctrine:migrations:status