cicnavi Docker Containers

These are LAMP (Debian linux, Apache, PHP) oriented containers which I use in my day-to-day development work. Main purpose is to have development environment with different versions of PHP together with tools like composer, phpunit, psalm, phpcs... In addition, typical services like databases are also available.

Available containers

• DAP (Debian Apache PHP) containers which follow the PHP version releases and have their names set corresponding the PHP version, for example:
  • 74.dap.test - PHP v7.4.*
  • 82.dap.test - PHP v8.2.*
  • ...
  • 08.dap.test - Latest PHP v8.*
• Database containers like MySQL, OpenLDAP, Redis...

Run containers

Clone the repo and enter the directory, for example:

git clone https://github.com/cicnavi/dockers.git dockers
cd dockers

Fetch certs (or refresh them when they expire):

./bin/refresh-certs.sh

Copy .env.example to .env and edit .env appropriately (it holds environment variables used to run containers).

cp .env.example .env

You can use 'docker compose' command to easily run defined containers in file 'compose.yml'.

docker compose up -d

If needed, create a copy of compose.yml and edit it to suit your needs. Then you can run your custom compose.yml:

docker compose -f custom-compose.yml up -d

DAP (Debian Apache PHP) Containers

DAP containers are available with different PHP versions. Each folder in 'dap' folder corresponds to specific PHP version which is used in a container. So, with this approach we can easily run different containers to test our web application on different PHP version.

If you look at the 'compose.yml' file, you'll notice that besides DAP containers, it will also run database containers, like MySQL, Redis...

Configuring Apache and PHP

Inside 'dap' folder, there is one folder for each PHP version. For each PHP version we can set custom Apache and PHP configuration. You'll also find 'shared/src' folder, which can be used to share config across all containers.

Setting source files for your web application

My approach of making source files available in containers is to mount my 'projects' folder which holds sources of all applications that I'm working on. If you look at the compose.yml file, you'll note that I'm mounting '~/projects:/var/www/projects' in all containers, so all my apps are available in /var/www/projects folder.

Next, the 'html' folder should contain files which will be served publicly by the Apache web server. By default, in 'html' folder you'll find 'index.php' file which will dump PHP information.

When you make your application source files available for example in '/var/www/projects' folder, you can enter the 'bash' in the container, and create a symlink to the application source which will be served publicly.

For example, let's enter the 'bash' in 08.dap.test container:

docker exec -it 08.dap.test bash

By default, you'll be positioned in '/var/www/html' folder. Here you can create a symlink to a source file or folder you wish to be served by Apache:

ln -s ../projects/some-php-app/public some-php-app

This will create a symbolic link 'some-php-app' which will point to 'public' folder of our PHP application. Of course, you should adjust symlinks to suit your needs.

In order to share all symlinks between containers, simply mount the default html folder in all containers like I mount './mounts/html:/var/www/html' in compose.yml.

Running web application

Note that nginx reverse proxy is used in front of all DAP containers by default.

Each container has several virtual hosts appointed which can then be used to access specific container. By default, everything is configured around a wildcard domain '*.localhost.markoivancic.form.hr', which has a real certificate available, so you can use https scheme out of the box.

For example, container 08.dap.test has a virtual host '08-dap.localhost.markoivancic.from.hr' set. That means we can access our web application on a URL:

https://08-dap.localhost.markoivancic.form.hr/some-php-app/.

If you only enter https://08-dap.localhost.markoivancic.form.hr, you'll get PHP info dump.

Specifying container host names and forwarding ports

You can edit your operating system hosts file and add host names for each container. For example, you can add the following entries:

127.0.0.1 74.dap.test
...
127.0.0.1 08.dap.test
127.0.0.1 mysql.dap.test

This way you can enter URL for the container like this:

http://08.dap.test

OpenLDAP

OpenLDAP containers are simply based on osixia/openldap which is available on Docker Hub. Some minor modifications for the default options were made using ENV variables:

• LDAP_TLS is set to "false"
• hostname is commented out
• domainname is commented out
• volume for /var/lib/ldap is set to ./ldap
• volume for /etc/ldap/slapd.d is set to ./slap.d
• new volume is added ./shared:/root/shared

Running OpenLDAP Containers

Once you've cloned this repo, go to 'openldap' directory:

cd dockers/openldap

Here you'll find a 'compose.yml' file. This means you can use 'docker compose' command to easily run defined containers (you can edit that file to suit your needs if you wish):

docker compose up -d

TODO

• Consider automatic cert download for localhost.markoivancic.from.hr on nginx proxy using script and specific build