With one command the compose file starts up three Docker containers. # before: /Users/vincentb/Sites/ # after: Options FollowSymLinks DocumentRoot '/var/www/html/' ServerName localhost I copied over the Apache configuration file from the former setup and only had to change all directory paths which map to the volumes directive in the Docker configuration.

It uses Docker Compose which is basically a Yaml file with all we need. It took me quite some time before I got on the Docker boat 🚢īasically I have a subdirectory in my ~/Sites directory which contains all Docker configuration. Her video, and a couple of results from Google, say the better tutorial blog post on Docker, resulted in the following setup and configuration. She has a great course on YouTube which lasts about 3 hours (2 hours on 1.5 the speed) digging deep into all features of Docker. I thought the learning curve was too steep, but that wasn’t actually true. I had heard about Docker a couple of years ago but I never had used it. I was fed up with dealing with a lot of administration with regard to running MacPorts and Homebrew: clean up, update, upgrade… Besides they took up a lot of disc space and I regularly had to clean up my MacBook in order to retain enough room for other applications. I deleted both and wrote a docker-compose.yml with about 50 SLOC that’s easier to maintain and easy to set up.

But I found out both use an aweful lot of diskspace. I had both Macports and Homebrew installed… Why? I can’t recall actually. I was cleaning up my laptop as I had only 6Gb left on my 2013 MacBook Pro. This article describes a way to set up a MAMP development environment with Docker, Apache, PHP and MariaDB (i.e. MySQL). It took me quite some time before I got on the Docker boat (pun intended), but since last few weeks, I’m totally in.

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