Create a homestead docker container for your development env. (Adapted from laravel homestead provisionning script)

please refer to these tutorials:

• install docker (https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/)

curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh

• install docker compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.17.1/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

docker pull shincoder/homestead:php7.1

git clone https://github.com/shincoder/homestead-docker.git

rename docker-compose.dist.yml to docker-compose.yml then edit the file with you own paths and ports.

There are only two containers to run. web container ( includes everything except your database ), and mariadb container.

sudo docker-compose up -d

ssh -p 2222 homestead@localhost

Assuming you mapped your apps folder to /apps (you can change mappings in the docker-compose.yml file, it's prefered to use absolute paths), you can do:

cd /
sudo ./serve.sh myapp.dev /apps/myapp/public
sudo supervisorctl restart all

In the host, update /etc/hosts to include your app domain:

127.0.0.1               myapp.dev

Our web container starts nginx, php-fpm, redis, beanstalk. and has npm, gulp, bower...etc

• Since the web and database containers are linked you can use mysql as the host in your .env file with an empty password to properly connect to your database.

DB_HOST=mysql
DB_PORT=3306
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=