Create starter for docker and symfony with php 7.2

1. how to use docker

docker-compose build

At this moment, Docker will execute all configurations that we set up. When it’s done, you can launch your # containers with:

docker-compose up -d

2. How Docker work ?

I will not explain how Docker because this is not the subject, but for keep going this post you have to understand two things :

• Each container is one linux distribution with one component
• Each container have one root access by default

So when you execute this :

docker exec -it -u 'container_name' bash

3. Now we comes to symfony

Now we go to the PHP container but not as root, also as dev user (for this example).

docker exec -it -u dev 'container_name' bash

Now we are inside of the php container as dev user.

For the symfony installation we musst go to the home directory.

go to Home (sf4)

cd /home/wwwroot/sf4

install symfony4 with composer

composer create-project symfony/skeleton my-temp-folder

get the project to the root path

cp -Rf /home/wwwroot/sf4/my-temp-folder/. .
rm -Rf /home/wwwroot/sf4/my-temp-folder

Now launch our browser with localhost

Congratulation !!

You can now easily start your new Symfony project. If you look inside the docker-compose.yml file you can see all acces as you need.