There are many ways that you can use Phalcon with Docker.
Our official images are located here. We always welcome pull requests and improvements. The repository for the docker files is located here: https://github.com/phalcon/dockerfiles.
With Phalcon-compose you can create an isolated environment with docker, that will allow you to use Phalcon without any additional installations. Note that using Phalcon Compose, requires Docker Engine >= 1.10.0 and Docker Compose >= 1.6.2
Phalcon Compose offers the following services by default:
Phalcon Compose is very easy to use. Assume that you need to create an application that will be located in: /home/website. We will now need to run the following command for our container application can be created:
composer create-project sergeyklay/phalcon-compose --prefer-dist /home/website
You will need to create a new file called variables.env in /home/website. A sample file has been provided called variables.env.example.
cd /home/website
cp variables.env.example variables.env
nano variables.envWEB_ALIAS_DOMAIN. Change the name to something you will be able to use. In our case we just leave the default called phalcon.local.
Open your hosts file (/etc/hosts) and enter a new line like this:
127.0.0.1 phalcon.local
You might want to edit the docker-compose.yml file and remove services that you will not be using. Phalcon Compose offers a lot of services as mentioned above, so your application might not need some of them. Removing the relevant services from the docker-compose.yml file will reduce memory usage of your environment.
You can now build the environment.
docker-compose buildYou can now launch the environment:
cd /home/website
docker-compose up -d
Go to http://phalcon.local in your browser and you will see your environment is set up. You can now develop your application in the app folder.
To shut down the environment when is no longer needed you can issue the following command:
cd /home/website
docker-compose down