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Introduction to building a basic Laravel development environment using Docker
In the past, developing Laravel projects locally mostly involved installing the required services directly on the machine.
Later, the recommended development environment by the official documentation, Homestead
, became a popular choice.
Setting up the basic Docker and Laravel execution environment on a new server
If you are setting up a new cloud server and want to create a Laravel development environment using Docker on it.
And run Laravel’s common composer and artisan commands remotely, here’s a guide for you.
Introduction to enabling Docker service on cloud hosts
Step-by-step guide for enabling Docker and Docker-compose services on a new cloud host.
Guide on setting up PostgreSQL database using Docker
Setting up a PostgreSQL Database with Docker
Including Database Setup, Data Persistence, Using GUI to Operate the Database
Introducing how to use Portainer for visualizing and managing Docker services
Local development mostly involves command-line operations or using Docker’s GUI interface for service management.
Portainer
is an open-source UI tool that allows viewing Docker images and containers,
and executing actions such as start, stop, restart, and remove. It also enables viewing logs and errors for each container.
Even individuals without Docker execution permissions can log in using credentials when deploying services on cloud-hosted servers,
utilizing the visual interface for various Docker service management tasks.
Introducing how to manage multiple containers using docker-compose
When it comes to managing multiple Docker containers that are related to each other, using plain Docker commands requires remembering the relationships between containers.
However, with docker-compose, managing multiple containers becomes straightforward through easy definition of multi-container services.
