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🏗️ A skeleton to start a new web project with PHP, Docker and Castor

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Collection of Dockerfile and docker-compose configurations wrapped in an easy to use command line, oriented for PHP projects.

What is Docker Starter Kit

This repository provide a Docker infrastructure for your PHP projects with built-in support for HTTPS, custom domain, databases, workers... and is used at the pedestal for our projects here at JoliCode.

Learn more about it and why we created and open-sourced this starter-kit in our blog posts: in English 🇬🇧 or in French 🇫🇷.

WARNING: You are reading the README of version 3 that uses Invoke.

  • If you are using Fabric, you can read the dedicated README;
  • If you want to migrate from docker-starter v2.x to v3.0, you can read the dedicated guide;

Project configuration

Before executing any command, you need to configure few parameters in the invoke.py file:

  • project_name (required): This will be used to prefix all docker objects (network, images, containers);

  • root_domain (optional, default: project_name + '.test'): This is the root domain where the application will be available;

  • extra_domains (optional): This contains extra domains where the application will be available;

  • project_directory (optional, default: application): This is the host directory containing your PHP application.

For example:

project_name = 'foobar'
root_domain = project_name + '.test'
extra_domains = ['api.' + root_domain]
project_directory = 'application'

Will give you https://foobar.test and https://api.foobar.test pointing at your application/ directory.

Note: Some Invoke tasks have been added for DX purposes. Checkout and adapt the tasks install, migrate and cache_clear to your project.

Usage documentation

We provide a README.dist.md to bootstrap your project documentation, with everything you need to know to start and interact with the infrastructure.

To use this README.dist.md as a base for your project's README.md:

mv README.{dist.md,md}

Some files will not be needed for your project and should be deleted:

rm -rf .github/ CHANGELOG.md CONTRIBUTING.md LICENSE UPGRADE-3.0.md

Also, in order to improve your usage of invoke scripts, you can install console autocompletion script.

If you are using bash:

invoke --print-completion-script=bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/invoke

If you are using something else, please refer to your shell documentation. You may need to use invoke --print-completion-script=zsh > /to/somewhere.

Invoke supports completion for bash, zsh & fish shells.

Cookbooks

How to use with Symfony

Read the cookbook

If you want to create a new Symfony project, you need to enter a builder (inv builder) and run the following commands

  1. Remove the application folder:

    cd ..
    rm -rf application/*
    
  2. Create a new project:

    composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton application
    
  3. Configure the .env

    sed -i 's#DATABASE_URL.*#DATABASE_URL=postgresql://app:app@postgres:5432/app\?serverVersion=12\&charset=utf8#' application/.env
    

How to use with Webpack Encore

Read the cookbook

Note: this cookbook documents the integration of webpack 5+. For older version of webpack, use previous version of the docker starter.

If you want to use Webpack Encore in a Symfony project,

  1. Follow instructions on symfony.com to install webpack encore.

    You will need to follow these instructions too.

  2. Create a new service for encore:

    Add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

    services:
        encore:
            build: services/builder
            volumes:
                - "../../${PROJECT_DIRECTORY}:/home/app/application:cached"
            command: "yarn run dev-server --hot --host 0.0.0.0 --allowed-hosts encore.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN} --allowed-hosts ${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN} --client-web-socket-url-hostname encore.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN} --client-web-socket-url-port 443 --client-web-socket-url-protocol wss"
            labels:
                - "traefik.enable=true"
                - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-encore.rule=Host(`encore.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
                - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-encore.tls=true"
                - "traefik.http.services.encore.loadbalancer.server.port=8080"
    
  3. Update the webpack configuration to specify the asset location in dev:

    diff --git a/application/webpack.config.js b/application/webpack.config.js
    index 056b04a..766c590 100644
    --- a/application/webpack.config.js
    +++ b/application/webpack.config.js
    @@ -6,13 +6,22 @@ if (!Encore.isRuntimeEnvironmentConfigured()) {
        Encore.configureRuntimeEnvironment(process.env.NODE_ENV || 'dev');
    }
    
    +
    +if (Encore.isProduction()) {
    +    Encore
    +        // public path used by the web server to access the output path
    +        .setPublicPath('/build')
    +        // only needed for CDN's or sub-directory deploy
    +        //.setManifestKeyPrefix('build/')
    +} else {
    +    Encore
    +        .setPublicPath('https://encore.app.test/build')
    +        .setManifestKeyPrefix('build/')
    +}
    +
    Encore
        // directory where compiled assets will be stored
        .setOutputPath('public/build/')
    -    // public path used by the web server to access the output path
    -    .setPublicPath('/build')
    -    // only needed for CDN's or sub-directory deploy
    -    //.setManifestKeyPrefix('build/')
    
        /*
        * ENTRY CONFIG
    

If the assets are not reachable, you may accept self-signed certificate. To do so, open a new tab at https://encore.app.test and click on accept.

How to add Elasticsearch and Kibana

Read the cookbook

In order to use Elasticsearch and Kibana, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

volumes:
    elasticsearch-data: {}

services:
    elasticsearch:
        image: elasticsearch:7.8.0
        volumes:
            - elasticsearch-data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
        environment:
            - "discovery.type=single-node"
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-elasticsearch.rule=Host(`elasticsearch.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-elasticsearch.tls=true"

    kibana:
        image: kibana:7.8.0
        depends_on:
            - elasticsearch
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-kibana.rule=Host(`kibana.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-kibana.tls=true"

Then, you will be able to browse:

  • https://kibana.<root_domain>
  • https://elasticsearch.<root_domain>

In your application, you can use the following configuration:

  • scheme: http;
  • host: elasticsearch;
  • port: 9200.

How to add RabbitMQ and its dashboard

Read the cookbook

In order to use RabbitMQ and its dashboard, you should add a new service:

# services/rabbitmq/Dockerfile
FROM rabbitmq:3-management-alpine

COPY etc/. /etc/

And you can add specific RabbitMQ configuration in the services/rabbitmq/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf file:

# services/rabbitmq/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf
vm_memory_high_watermark.absolute = 1GB

Finally, add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

volumes:
    rabbitmq-data: {}

services:
    rabbitmq:
        build: services/rabbitmq
        volumes:
            - rabbitmq-data:/var/lib/rabbitmq
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-rabbitmq.rule=Host(`rabbitmq.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-rabbitmq.tls=true"
            - "traefik.http.services.rabbitmq.loadbalancer.server.port=15672"

In order to publish and consume messages with PHP, you need to install the php${PHP_VERSION}-amqp in the php-base image.

Then, you will be able to browse:

  • https://rabbitmq.<root_domain> (username: guest, password: guest)

In your application, you can use the following configuration:

  • host: rabbitmq;
  • username: guest;
  • password: guest;
  • port: rabbitmq.

For example in Symfony you can use: MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN=amqp://guest:guest@rabbitmq:5672/%2f/messages.

How to add Redis and its dashboard

Read the cookbook

In order to use Redis and its dashboard, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

volumes:
    redis-data: {}
    redis-insight-data: {}

services:
    redis:
        image: redis:5
        volumes:
            - "redis-data:/data"

    redis-insight:
        image: redislabs/redisinsight
        volumes:
            - "redis-insight-data:/db"
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-redis.rule=Host(`redis.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-redis.tls=true"

In order to communicate with Redis, you need to install the php${PHP_VERSION}-redis in the php-base image.

Then, you will be able to browse:

  • https://redis.<root_domain>

In your application, you can use the following configuration:

  • host: redis;
  • port: 6379.

How to add Maildev

Read the cookbook

In order to use Maildev and its dashboard, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

services:
    maildev:
        image: djfarrelly/maildev
        command: ["bin/maildev", "--web", "80", "--smtp", "25", "--hide-extensions", "STARTTLS"]
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-maildev.rule=Host(`maildev.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-maildev.tls=true"
            - "traefik.http.services.maildev.loadbalancer.server.port=80"

Then, you will be able to browse:

  • https://maildev.<root_domain>

In your application, you can use the following configuration:

  • scheme: smtp;
  • host: maildev;
  • port: 25.

For example in Symfony you can use: MAILER_DSN=smtp://maildev:25.

How to add Mercure

Read the cookbook

In order to use Mercure, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

services:
    mercure:
        image: dunglas/mercure
        environment:
            - "MERCURE_PUBLISHER_JWT_KEY=password"
            - "MERCURE_SUBSCRIBER_JWT_KEY=password"
            - "ALLOW_ANONYMOUS=1"
            - "CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS=*"
        labels:
            - "traefik.enable=true"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-mercure.rule=Host(`mercure.${PROJECT_ROOT_DOMAIN}`)"
            - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-mercure.tls=true"

If you are using Symfony, you must put the following configuration in the .env file:

MERCURE_PUBLISH_URL=http://mercure/.well-known/mercure
MERCURE_JWT_TOKEN=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJtZXJjdXJlIjp7InN1YnNjcmliZSI6W10sInB1Ymxpc2giOltdfX0.t9ZVMwTzmyjVs0u9s6MI7-oiXP-ywdihbAfPlghTBeQ

How to add redirection.io

Read the cookbook

In order to use redirection.io, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file to run the agent:

services:
    redirectionio-agent:
        build: services/redirectionio-agent

Add the following file infrastructure/docker/services/redirectionio-agent/Dockerfile:

FROM alpine:3.12 as alpine

WORKDIR /tmp

RUN apk add --no-cache wget ca-certificates \
    && wget https://packages.redirection.io/dist/stable/2/any/redirectionio-agent-latest_any_amd64.tar.gz \
    && tar -xzvf redirectionio-agent-latest_any_amd64.tar.gz

FROM scratch

# Binary copied from tar
COPY --from=alpine /tmp/redirection-agent/redirectionio-agent /usr/local/bin/redirectionio-agent

# Configuration, can be replaced by your own
COPY etc /etc

# Root SSL Certificates, needed as we do HTTPS requests to our service
COPY --from=alpine /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/certs/

CMD ["/usr/local/bin/redirectionio-agent"]

Add infrastructure/docker/services/redirectionio-agent/etc/redirectionio/agent.yml:

instance_name: "my-instance-dev" ### You may want to change this
listen: 0.0.0.0:10301

Then you'll need wget. In infrastructure/docker/services/frontend/Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        wget \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/*

You can group this command with another one.

Then, after installing nginx, you need to install the module:

RUN wget -q -O - https://packages.redirection.io/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/redirection.io.gpg \
    && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redirection.io.gpg] https://packages.redirection.io/deb/stable/2 focal main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/packages_redirection_io_deb.list \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install libnginx-mod-redirectionio \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/*

Finally, you need to edit infrastructure/docker/services/frontend/etc/nginx/nginx.conf to add the following configuration in the server block:

redirectionio_pass redirectionio-agent:10301;
redirectionio_project_key "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA:BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB";

Don't forget to change the project key.

How to add Blackfire.io

Read the cookbook

In order to use Blackfire.io, you should add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file to run the agent:

services:
    blackfire:
        image: blackfire/blackfire
        environment:
            BLACKFIRE_SERVER_ID: FIXME
            BLACKFIRE_SERVER_TOKEN: FIXME
            BLACKFIRE_CLIENT_ID: FIXME
            BLACKFIRE_CLIENT_TOKEN: FIXME

Then you'll need wget. In infrastructure/docker/services/php-base/Dockerfile:

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        wget \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/*

You can group this command with another one.

Then, after installing PHP, you need to install the probe:

RUN wget -q -O - https://packages.blackfire.io/gpg.key | gpg --dearmor > /usr/share/keyrings/blackfire.io.gpg \
    && sh -c 'echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/blackfire.io.gpg] http://packages.blackfire.io/debian any main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/blackfire.list' \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        blackfire-php \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/* \
    && sed -i 's#blackfire.agent_socket.*#blackfire.agent_socket=tcp://blackfire:8707#' /etc/php/${PHP_VERSION}/mods-available/blackfire.ini

If you want to profile HTTP calls, you need to enable the probe with PHP-FPM. So in infrastructure/docker/services/frontend/Dockerfile:

RUN phpenmod blackfire

Here also, You can group this command with another one.

How to add support for crons?

Read the cookbook

In order to set up crontab, you should add a new container:

# services/cron/Dockerfile
ARG PROJECT_NAME

FROM ${PROJECT_NAME}_php-base

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        cron \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/*

COPY crontab /etc/cron.d/crontab
RUN crontab /etc/cron.d/crontab

CMD ["cron", "-f"]

And you can add all your crons in the services/cron/crontab file:

* * * * * su app -c "/usr/local/bin/php -r 'echo time().PHP_EOL;'" > /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1

Finally, add the following content to the docker-compose.yml file:

services:
    cron:
        build: services/cron
        volumes:
            - "../../${PROJECT_DIRECTORY}:/home/app/application:cached"

How to run workers?

Read the cookbook

In order to set up workers, you should define their service in the docker-compose.worker.yml file:

services:
    worker_my_worker:
        <<: *worker_base
        command: /home/app/application/my-worker

    worker_date:
        <<: *worker_base
        command: watch -n 1 date

How to use PHP FPM status page?

Read the cookbook

If you wan to use the PHP FPM status page you need to remove a configuration block in the infrastructure/docker/services/frontend/etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:

-        # Remove this block if you want to access to PHP FPM monitoring
-        # dashboarsh (on URL: /php-fpm-status). WARNING: on production, you must
-        # secure this page (by user IP address, with a password, for example)
-        location ~ ^/php-fpm-status$ {
-            deny all;
-        }
-

And if your application uses the front controller pattern, and you want to see the real request URI, you also need to uncomment the following configuration block:

-            # # Uncomment if you want to use /php-fpm-status endpoint **with**
-            # # real request URI. It may have some side effects, that's why it's
-            # # commented by default
-            # fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $request_uri;
+            # Uncomment if you want to use /php-fpm-status endpoint **with**
+            # real request URI. It may have some side effects, that's why it's
+            # commented by default
+            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $request_uri;

How to pg_activity for monitoring PostgreSQL

Read the cookbook

In order to install pg_activity, you should add the following content to the infrastructure/docker/services/postgres/Dockerfile file:

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        pg-activity \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/* /usr/share/doc/*

Then, you can add the following content to the tasks.py file:

@task
def pg_activity(c):
    """
    Monitor PostgreSQL
    """
    docker_compose(c, 'exec postgres pg_activity -U app', bare_run=True)

Finally you can use the following command:

inv pg-activity

How to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL

Read the cookbook

In order to use MySQL, you will need to apply this patch:

diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.builder.yml b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.builder.yml
index d00f315..bdfdc65 100644
--- a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.builder.yml
+++ b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.builder.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ services:
     builder:
         build: services/builder
         depends_on:
-            - postgres
+            - mysql
         environment:
             - COMPOSER_MEMORY_LIMIT=-1
         volumes:
diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.worker.yml b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.worker.yml
index 2eda814..59f8fed 100644
--- a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.worker.yml
+++ b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.worker.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ x-services-templates:
     worker_base: &worker_base
         build: services/worker
         depends_on:
-            - postgres
+            - mysql
             #- rabbitmq
         volumes:
             - "../../${PROJECT_DIRECTORY}:/home/app/application:cached"
diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.yml b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 49a2661..1804a01 100644
--- a/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/infrastructure/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 version: '3.7'

 volumes:
-    postgres-data: {}
+    mysql-data: {}

 services:
     router:
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ services:
     frontend:
         build: services/frontend
         depends_on:
-            - postgres
+            - mysql
         volumes:
             - "../../${PROJECT_DIRECTORY}:/home/app/application:cached"
         labels:
@@ -24,10 +24,7 @@ services:
             # Comment the next line to be able to access frontend via HTTP instead of HTTPS
             - "traefik.http.routers.${PROJECT_NAME}-frontend-unsecure.middlewares=redirect-to-https@file"

-    postgres:
-        build: services/postgres
-        environment:
-            - POSTGRES_USER=app
-            - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=app
+    mysql:
+        build: services/mysql
         volumes:
-            - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
+            - mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql
diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/services/mysql/Dockerfile b/infrastructure/docker/services/mysql/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9e0245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/docker/services/mysql/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FROM mariadb:10.4
+
+ENV MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=1
diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/services/php-base/Dockerfile b/infrastructure/docker/services/php-base/Dockerfile
index 56e1835..95fee78 100644
--- a/infrastructure/docker/services/php-base/Dockerfile
+++ b/infrastructure/docker/services/php-base/Dockerfile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ RUN apk add --no-cache \
     php${PHP_VERSION}-intl \
     php${PHP_VERSION}-mbstring \
-    php${PHP_VERSION}-pgsql \
+    php${PHP_VERSION}-mysql \
     php${PHP_VERSION}-xml \
     php${PHP_VERSION}-zip \
diff --git a/infrastructure/docker/services/postgres/Dockerfile b/infrastructure/docker/services/postgres/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index a1c26c4..0000000
--- a/infrastructure/docker/services/postgres/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-FROM postgres:12
-
-EXPOSE 5432

How to solve build dependencies

Read the cookbook

Docker-compose is not a tool to build images. This is why you can hit the following bug:

ERROR: Service 'frontend' failed to build: pull access denied for app_basephp, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: requested access to the resource is denied

In order to fix this issue, you can update the services_to_build_first variable in the invoke.py file. This will force docker-compose to build these services first.

Docker For Windows support

Read the cookbook

This starter kit is compatible with Docker for Windows, so you can enjoy native Docker experience on Windows. You will have to keep in mind some differences:

  • You will be prompted to run the env vars manually if you use PowerShell.

How to access a container via a custom hostname from another container

Read the cookbook

Let's say you have a container (frontend) that responds to many hostname: app.test, api.app.test, admin.app.test. And you have another container (builder) that need to call the frontend with a specific hostname - or with HTTPS. This is usually the case when you have a functional test suite.

To enable this feature, you need to add extra_hosts to the builder container like following:

services:
    builder:
        # [...]
        extra_hosts:
            - "app.test:172.17.0.1"
            - "api.app.test:172.17.0.1"
            - "admin.app.test:172.17.0.1"

Note: 172.17.0.1 is the default IP of the docker0 interface. It can be different on some installations. You can see this IP thanks to the following command ip address show docker0. Since docker-compose.yml file supports environment variables you may script this with Invoke.

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