Next in this series, I am setting up a docker container to host a laravel website on AWS.

Following this tutorial https://buddy.works/guides/laravel-in-docker

I started with a fresh install of Laravel 8 which is in Part 5 of the repo github.com/allotmentandy/aws with this Dockerfile

FROM php:8.0.5
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y openssl zip unzip git
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo 
WORKDIR /app
COPY . /app
RUN composer install

CMD php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8888
EXPOSE 8888

BUILD the container

docker build -t laravelDocker .

RUN the container

docker run -p 8888:8888 laravelDocker

STOP the container

The first command shows all the containers, the second stops the container with the id

docker container ls

docker container stop ba0ce2c7575f

visiting http://localhost:8888/ see the laravel frontpage

I am going to set it up on an EC2 server instance, but that doesnt seem the norm with Lightsail, Lambda or ECS seemingly better fits for hosting a container image.

So i have the Debian Instance i setup in part 4 with Terraform, now i am going to manually login via ssh, and setup docker

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker-ce

Now i need to add my docker container to docker hub

docker ps # to see the docker images eg. id = 5a6a73bcea26

# docker commit -m "first commit" -a "NAME" laraveldocker allotmentandy/laraveldocker:latest # didnt work :(

docker login

docker tag 5a6a73bcea26 allotmentandy/laraveldocker

docker push allotmentandy/laraveldocker

Et voila! dockerhub / allotmentandy

now i ssh into the EC2 instance

docker pull allotmentandy/laraveldocker
sudo docker run -p 80:80 allotmentandy/laraveldocker

updating the laravel files / dockerfile means a rebuild:

docker build -t allotmentandy/laraveldocker -f Dockerfile  .
docker push allotmentandy/laraveldocker

stopping the container, redoing the pull and running it again. Simples :)

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