Can I create single Dockerfile from laradock?

Question

I got instructed to create a single dockerfile in the root of the project, but also got a tip to use the laradock as starting point.

How can I do this? The only way so far I know to create an docker environment is to run it with docker-compose command

Answer 1

No, Dockerfiles are single containers (services) by design. Laradock provides a docker-compose file that references multiple dockerfiles. However you could create a smaller docker-compose file that only starts the containers you need (let's say a webserver with php, a database server and redis).

Laradock ships with way to much containers in docker-compose, that is why the tutorial tells you to specify which containers you want to run.

docker-compose up -d nginx mysql

But if you specify a minimal docker-compose.yml, you just can type

docker-compose up -d

without any additional arguments

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Yes, you could add all the required services to a single container, but that would be against what you try to achieve using Docker.