Docker

Running Laravel in docker environment

Best practices for running Laravel in docker environment.

1. Run Laravel in separate container with php-fpm image for handling HTTP requests.
2. Create nginx container that will use the php-fpm container.
3. Run schedule / workers in separate container using php-cli image.
4. All log output should be in json - this will enable scrapping the logs.

Logging

Development

• For development LOG_CHANNEL=stderr use .env

LOG_CHANNEL=stderr

Production

For production you want always to use JSON to be able to parse it for ELK or any other setup

• For development LOG_CHANNEL=docker use .env
• Update your logging.php

'docker' => [
    'driver' => 'monolog',
    'handler' => StreamHandler::class,
    'formatter' => Monolog\Formatter\JsonFormatter::class,
    'with' => [
        'stream' => 'php://stderr',
    ],
],