Build symfony docker container without DB - php

Question

I have an symfony application, and i want to create docker container, that contains all needed files. The purpose is to spin up/down containers for scaling, without any other deploying processes. Just with given DB connection.
Building means, pretty much just git clone and running composer install, but some of symfony's post install scripts fail without configured DB.
Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::clearCache
Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::installAssets
Can i not run these scripts when i'm building container? Or what the proper way to do symfony deployment?
Using Symfony 3.2, Doctrine2, PHP 7.1

Answer 1

The proper way to build a container without running the db script is by not running there scripts in the build,
Here is the one we use in production for api-platform:
FROM php:7.1-fpm-alpine
RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .persistent-deps \
git \
icu-libs \
zlib \
postgresql-client
ENV APCU_VERSION 5.1.8
RUN set -xe \
&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps \
$PHPIZE_DEPS \
icu-dev \
zlib-dev \
postgresql-dev \
sqlite-dev \
pcre-dev \
&& docker-php-ext-install \
intl \
mbstring \
pdo_mysql \
pdo_pgsql \
pdo \
pgsql \
zip \
pdo_sqlite \
&& pecl install \
apcu-${APCU_VERSION} \
&& docker-php-ext-enable --ini-name 20-apcu.ini apcu \
&& docker-php-ext-enable --ini-name 05-opcache.ini opcache \
&& apk del .build-deps
COPY docker/php/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
COPY docker/php/install-composer.sh /usr/local/bin/docker-app-install-composer
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-app-install-composer
RUN set -xe \
&& apk add --no-cache --virtual .fetch-deps \
openssl \
&& docker-app-install-composer \
&& mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer \
&& apk del .fetch-deps
ARG SYMFONY_ENV=dev
ENV SYMFONY_ENV=dev
RUN if [ "$SYMFONY_ENV" -ne "dev" ]; then \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_enable=1' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_autostart=0' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_connect_back=1 ' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_port=9001' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
sed -i '1 a xdebug.remote_log=/var/log/xdebug_remote.log' /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/docker-php-ext-xdebug.ini && \
pecl install \
xdebug \
&& docker-php-ext-enable xdebug; \
fi;
# https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#composer-allow-superuser
ENV COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER 1
WORKDIR /srv/quotatis
COPY composer.json ./
COPY composer.lock ./
RUN mkdir -p \
var/cache \
var/logs \
var/sessions \
&& composer global require "hirak/prestissimo:^0.3" --prefer-dist --no-progress --no-suggest -o -a \
&& composer install --prefer-dist --no-dev --no-autoloader --no-scripts --no-progress --no-suggest \
&& composer clear-cache \
# Permissions hack because setfacl does not work on Mac and Windows
&& chown -R www-data var
COPY app app/
COPY bin bin/
COPY src src/
COPY web web/
COPY etc etc/
RUN composer dump-autoload --optimize --classmap-authoritative --no-dev
COPY docker/php/start.sh /usr/local/bin/docker-app-start
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-app-start
CMD ["docker-app-start"]
You could see the whole stack (nginx + fpm + varnish on github)
The line that you need in here is this one
composer install --prefer-dist --no-dev --no-autoloader --no-scripts --no-progress --no-suggest