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Reputation: 632

Deploying Laravel with Docker containers

I plan to deploy my Laravel application with docker containers. I need the following components for my application:

Since the application is still under development (and probably will always be), it should be very easy to update (I will automate this with GitLab CI/CD) and it should have as little downtime as possible during the update. Also, I want to be able to host multiple instances of the application, whereby only the .env file for Laravel is different. In addition to the live application, I want to host a staging application.

My current approach is to create a container for the MySQL server, one for the nginx server and one for the queue worker. The application code would be a layer in the nginx server container and in the queue worker container. When updating the application, I would rebuild the nginx conatiner and queue worker container.
Is this a good approach? Or are there better ways to achieve this? And what would be a good approach for my mysql server, nginx server, php version,... to stay up to date without downtime for the application?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 505

Answers (1)

Aleksandr Bakhmach
Aleksandr Bakhmach

Reputation: 154

The main idea of the docker is to divide your app by containers. So yep it is good to have one container for one service. In your example, I suggest keeping MySQL in one container the queue worker in another and so on. As a result, u will have containers for each service. Then suggest to create the internal docket network and connect containers to them. Also, I suggest using docker volumes to store all your application data. To make it much easyer I suggest for configuration to use docker compose.

Upvotes: 1

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