DOCKER.md

OpenCFP is a PHP-based conference talk submission system.

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Using Docker for Development

Now that we have Docker image that we can build, it is easy for us to setup a docker development environment, you need to follow the following steps:

• You need to create a new docker-compose.yml file from our docker-compose.yml.dist file.

• Modify the app.environment section to look like the following:

    environment:
      - "CFP_ENV=development"
      - "CFP_DB_HOST=database"
      - "CFP_DB_PASS=root"

• Modify the app.volumes section to look like the following:

    volumes:
      - ./:/var/www
      - ./config/docker.yml.dist:/var/www/config/development.yml
      - ./.docker/script:/var/www/script

The most important section is the app.volumes section, as it will make sure that we share our code with the docker container.

The following, will create a shared volume with the container, so any file you create in your code will automatically copied over to the container.

 - ./:/var/www

Meanwhile, The following will create a copy from our docker.yml.dist file and call it development.yml file within the container, you can remove this line and create your own .yml file.

- ./config/docker.yml.dist:/var/www/config/development.yml

The last part, is the important one, as the scripts was written in bash mean while the docker image depends on alpine to make sure it has a small size (about 270MB in total), so we needs to copy over the docker specific files to the container, and replace the one on the container.

- ./.docker/script:/var/www/script

This will not overwrite the original script files, but will make our liver easier and will make the scripts compatible with sh.

Run Docker

Now all you have to do is to run the following command:

$ docker-compose up -d

Which will automatically build the images for your if its not already built.

and to stop your containers you can run:

$ docker-compose down

PS: You can access MySQL in the same way we described in the Docker section.