Image Overview: laravel
Minimalist Wolfi-based Laravel images for developing, building, and running Laravel applications.
Download this Image
The image is available on cgr.dev
:
docker pull cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest
Obtaining Environment Information
Based on the cgr.dev/chainguard/php:latest-fpm
image, our Laravel images include extensions required by Laravel and a dedicated laravel
user with uid 1000
, reserved for development and build. To check the PHP version running on the latest
variant, you can run:
docker run --rm --entrypoint php cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest --version
You should get output similar to this:
PHP 8.2.17 (cli) (built: Mar 12 2024 17:12:35) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.2.17, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
To obtain information about available modules, you can run:
docker run --rm --entrypoint php cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest -m
And this will give you the list of PHP modules currently enabled in the cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel
image:
[PHP Modules]
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
hash
iconv
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_sqlite
Phar
random
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
sodium
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
zlib
To obtain detailed information about the environment, you can run a php --info
command on any of the image tags and use grep
to look for a specific module or extension.
For instance, to check for curl
settings, you can run:
docker run --rm --entrypoint php cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest --info | grep curl
Using the latest-dev
image as Development Environment for Laravel Applications
You can use the latest-dev
variant of the Laravel image to create and develop Laravel applications without having to install PHP on your host machine.
To create a new Laravel application from your host environment and get access to source files for development, you can run the laravel-dev
image using a shared volume:
docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/work --entrypoint composer --user laravel \
cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest-dev \
create-project laravel/laravel demo-laravel --working-dir=/work
The laravel user has uid 1000, which will typically match a non-root system user on Linux systems. This allows for a frictionless development environment using shared volumes. If you run into permission issues, it might be the case that your user has a different UID, and that won’t match the ownership of files generated inside the container and shared through volumes. If that happens, you should use the root
container user instead, and fix file permissions accordingly.
In a similar way, you can use the built-in Laravel server to preview the application on your host browser. You’ll need a port redirect for that:
docker run -p 8000:8000 --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/work --entrypoint /work/demo-laravel/artisan --user laravel cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest-dev serve --host=0.0.0.0
You can access the application at http://localhost:8000
while the command runs.
Example Docker Compose Setup
A good way to test your setup locally is by using Docker Compose. The following docker-compose.yaml
file demonstrates how to create a web server environment using the Nginx Chainguard Image :
version: "3.7"
services:
app:
image: cgr.dev/chainguard/laravel:latest-dev
restart: unless-stopped
working_dir: /app
volumes:
- ./app:/app
networks:
- wolfi
nginx:
image: cgr.dev/chainguard/nginx
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 8000:8080
volumes:
- ./app:/app
- ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
networks:
- wolfi
mariadb:
image: cgr.dev/chainguard/mariadb
restart: unless-stopped
environment:
MARIADB_ALLOW_EMPTY_ROOT_PASSWORD: 1
MARIADB_USER: laravel
MARIADB_PASSWORD: password
MARIADB_DATABASE: php-test
ports:
- 3306:3306
networks:
- wolfi
networks:
wolfi:
driver: bridge
You’ll notice the Nginx service has a volume share to set up a custom config file. The following nginx.conf
file sets up Nginx to serve pages from a /app/public
folder and redirects requests to .php
files to the app
service on port 9000
.
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
server {
listen 80;
index index.php index.html;
root /app/public;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass app:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
gzip_static on;
}
}
}
You can get the environment up with:
docker composer up
This will give you a full LEMP experience in a persistent environment including a MariaDB database (drop-in replacement for MySQL).
Last updated: 2024-04-15 03:08