How to use php & nodejs from separate containers - php

Let's say I have the following situation:
docker-compose.yml
version: '3'
services:
web:
build: .
links:
- apache
- php
- node
depends_on:
- apache
- php
- node
volumes:
- .:/var/www/html
apache:
image: httpd
php:
image: php
node:
image: node
and I also have a Dockerfile
FROM phusion/baseimage
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -yq git curl zip wget curl
RUN curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php # error, no PHP exec found
RUN mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
RUN npm install -g bower gulp
COPY ./ /var/www/html
WORKDIR /var/www/html
RUN apt-get clean
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
CMD ["/sbin/my_init"]
Now my question is: how could I use PHP & Node, which are installed in separate containers, in this main app Dockerfile? Is that even possible, or do I need to manually install PHP & Node inside my Dockerfile?

Docker doesn't work the way you are thinking. This isn't like code inheritance or configuring a single machine with multiple runtime languages. You are configuring multiple virtual machines, each with their own runtime environment.
if you want to run a PHP app, you put that app in the container that has PHP. same with Node.

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How to create a Symfony project (only) in Docker container

I wish to install Symfony and use it on a project, but do it without installing it on my system. So I figured it could be done using Docker, yet my efforts to make it work haven't paid off so far.
I created a Dockerfile where I tried installing everything I could possibly need and then running Symfony, while I was setting up a simple docker-compose.yml. When I try to up it, the container just exists, and by its log, it seems that Symfony could not be found, even though the image seems to build ok.
So what would be the correct way to accomplish this?
Dockerfile:
FROM php:8.1-apache
RUN a2enmod rewrite
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y libzip-dev git wget --no-install-recommends \
&& apt-get clean \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo mysqli pdo_mysql zip;
RUN wget https://getcomposer.org/download/2.2.0/composer.phar \
&& mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer && chmod +x /usr/bin/composer
RUN composer create-project symfony/skeleton:"6.1.*" app
RUN cd /app
CMD ["symfony", "server:start"]
docker-compose.yml:
version: '3.7'
services:
db:
image: mysql:5.7
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=somerootpass
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=somepass
- MYSQL_DATABASE=dockerizeme_db
- MYSQL_USER=someuser
web:
build: .
ports:
- 8080:8000
volumes:
- './app:/app'
depends_on:
- db
You have a couple problems here.
First, you did not install the Symfony's CLI in your container, see https://symfony.com/download.
Without this, you can not use the symfony command. The compose create-project command does not install the CLI, it's only creating the framework skeleton.
Next, you are mounting a local folder ./app on your container's /app thus, the result of create project in your Dockerfile is overwritten at run time.
If you want to create the project in your local folder mounted inside the container, you would have to do it in the ENTRYPOINT.
But, since it's something you will most likely want to do only once, if you really do not want anything on your local computer, you could take the following approach.
Temporarily change your command, maybe in your docker-compose.yaml file to ["sleep", "infinity"] and re-up your containers
Run a command docker compose exec web composer create-project symfony/skeleton:"6.1.*" app
Change back your command and re-up your containers one last time
Bind mounts are mounted at run time so they are not yet mounted during your build.
Also, I see that you run Symfony's dev server but are using a Apache PHP image. I would normally do one or the other but not both.
Plus you do a RUN cd /app but the correct way to do that in that context would be WORKDIR /app

Containerizing legacy PHP Laravel project

I have to containerize a legacy PHP Laravel application and deploy it in an EKS cluster, and as I am completely new to both PHP and Laravel, I am currently having some difficulties.
After googling some examples of a Laravel Dockerfile, there seems to be many different methods of doing this and I had some trouble understanding and executing the process.
In one of the blogs I found, it seems to use a Dockerfile and a docker-compose.yaml file to containerize the application like the one used below.
FROM php:7.3-fpm
# step 2
WORKDIR /root
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y curl
# step 3
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
RUN mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
# step 4
RUN apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev && apt-get install -y libzip-dev
RUN docker-php-ext-install zip
# step 5
RUN composer global require laravel/installer
RUN ["/bin/bash", "-c", "echo PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin/ >> ~/.bashrc"]
RUN ["/bin/bash", "-c", "source ~/.bashrc"]
# step 6
EXPOSE 9000
CMD ["php-fpm"]
version: '3'
services:
proxy:
image: nginx:latest
ports:
- "80:80"
volumes:
- ./proxy/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
web:
image: nginx:latest
expose:
- "8080"
volumes:
- ./source:/source
- ./nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
php:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: php/Dockerfile
volumes:
- ./source:/source
I am guessing that the nginx is used for the web application server, kind of how Apache Tomcat is used in Spring Boot, but other than that, I am a little bit unclear on why there needs to be a yaml file for this.
In addition, I composed using the Docker and docker-compose.yaml file with the following command.
docker build -t website -f Dockerfile .
I did succeed in exporting the image, but I seem to have trouble running a container using this image.
It would be sincerely appreciate if you could tell me what I am doing wrong.
Thank you in advance!
Building with the Dockerfile only builds the php-fpm image, to run the container you should at least have one http server (like nginx) that forwards the requests to the php-fpm, there's probably something about that in ./proxy/nginx.conf,
It is also possible to build everything in 1 image (nginx, php-fpm), you probably want to start with something different then php:7.3-fpm (I usually start with alpine or ubuntu). Then its possible to run that image as a container and handle http requests.

composer install not working php-alpine docker

I am using php FPM alpine container with nginx alpine container for my laravel application.
Here is my Dockerfile,
FROM php:7.4-fpm-alpine
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
# install composer
RUN php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
RUN php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
RUN php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
# copy files
COPY ./ /usr/src/app/
# install packages
ENV COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER 1
RUN composer install
Here is my docker-compose file,
version: "3.7"
services:
web:
image: nginx:1.19-alpine
ports:
- 80:80
volumes:
- ../api:/usr/src/app
- ./site.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/site.conf
depends_on:
- api
api:
build: ../api
volumes:
- ../api:/usr/src/app
When I run docker-compose up --build the container build process works as you can see in the attached screenshot but the vendor directory was never created by the composer!?
Is it a known issue while using PHP FPM Alpine containers?
Also, when I access into the container using this command
docker exec -it docker_api_1 /bin/ash
and run composer install manually then everything works. Any suggestions are appreciated.
This is the error message when i visit the site. It can't find the composer autoload.php file,

Why is my volume not copying over to its docker container?

I am trying to run a webserver container with nginx and a php-fpm server running a Laravel application. The directory houses a frontend and backend directory so my paths are not off in the configuration files.
I setup a docker-compose.yml file
version: '2'
services:
webserver:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: webserver.docker
volumes:
- /home/colesam/Documents/code/todo/backend:/var/www
ports:
- "8080:80"
links:
- backend
backend:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: backend.docker
volumes:
- ./home/colesam/Documents/code/todo/backend:/var/www
And php-fpm Dockerfile (backend.docker)
FROM php:7.2-fpm
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y libmcrypt-dev openssl
RUN pecl install mcrypt-1.0.2
RUN docker-php-ext-enable mcrypt
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo mbstring
RUN apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
RUN apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
VOLUME ["/var/www"]
RUN ls -al /var/www
WORKDIR /var/www
RUN composer install
And the nginx webserver Dockerfile (webserver.docker)
FROM nginx:1.10
ADD ./vhost.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
WORKDIR /var/www
For some reason when I run docker-compose up -d --build I always fail at this step of the build process:
Step 13/13 : RUN composer install
---> Running in 65bb97f03004
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Composer could not find a composer.json file in /var/www
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section
ERROR: Service 'backend' failed to build: The command '/bin/sh -c composer install' returned a non-zero code: 1
From the last line of the output it looks like it failed because /var/www/was empty and didn't have the files copied over like composer.json. I looked around a lot and this stackoverflow issue seemed to be the most related to what was happening but I think I'm already following everything the accepted answer suggests.
Do I need to include a COPY or ADD command even though I'm mounting the folder through a volume?
The build phase does not see any mounted volumes. The only thing that is available to "build" are the things defined in the backend.docker and in the compose section of build:
build:
context: ./
dockerfile: backend.docker
Do I need to include a COPY or ADD command even though I'm mounting the folder through a volume?
Yes, modify your backend.docker similar to this
...
WORKDIR /var/www
ADD composer.json .
RUN composer install

Composer while 'docker-compose' with mount bind

I try to build a docker-compose project for a php application beside a database, which is automatically deployed on a developer machine. It's not a problem, but where it's stuck is the composer-install.
I want to have a directory from the host computer which is bind into the container, so developer are able to change code and are able to see it immediately in the docker instance. That means
Deploy a container with PHP and a webserver
Deploy the database
Bind the local source directory into the PHP container
Execute a composer-install in that directory
The directory tree is like
/
-php
-- src
-- Dockerfile
-postgres
-- Dockerfile
docker-compose.yml
I attached snippets from my docker-compose.yml and the PHP Dockerfile, anyone has an idea why it fails or see the problem in the order or something else or even can me explain what I have to notice? That would be great!
Dockerfile:
FROM xy
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php \
&& mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/ \
&& ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
COPY ./src /var/www/html
WORKDIR /var/www/html/
RUN composer install --prefer-source --no-interaction
Docker-compose file:
version: '3.4'
services:
php:
build: ./php
container_name: "php"
volumes:
- ./php/src:/var/www/html
postgres:
image: postgres:10.4-alpine
container_name: "postgres"

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