Dockerizing Development

Our development team uses Vagrant-powered virtual machines for local development, a multi-tenant staging environment for client demos, and manages multiple production servers for client websites. Until recently, every system in that fragile chain was running a different version of PHP.

And by “fragile chain” I mean this system caused headaches for the team. Every. Single. Day.

To resolve the problem, I’ve introduced the team to Docker, using containers to wrap every version of PHP we use and host all of them on the same machine at the same time. Our local Vagrant environments still allow us to code locally, but we can dynamically select the version of PHP we’re coding against with a cookie. The multi-tenant staging environment still works, but every staging instance can target a specific version of PHP.

Finally, we can use the same version of PHP at every level of the chain and never see another syntax error because an engineer developing locally against PHP 5.6 pushed code to a server running PHP 5.3. Want to see how I set this up for my team? Great! Everyone is open source and I’ll walk you through every step – then you can help Dockerize your team’s development environments, too!

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1. Dockerizing Development
   Eric Mann - Tozny
   

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2. –Jeremy Felt
   WordPress, meet Vagrant
   

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3. Varying Vagrant Vagrants
   What’s even better: it’s disposable!
   

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4. Evolution
   Bundles the WordPress development suite
   Keeps up-to-date with PHP and MySQL changes
   Empowers simple, local development complete with unit testing, runtime
   debugging, and even production-style caching
   Continues to evolve with contributions!
   

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5. Is it good enough?
   

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6. The Production Problem
   How are new servers spun up?
   How does new code get to the server?
   What happens when things go wrong?
   

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9. Docker
   Build applications inside lightweight, distributable containers
   Isolate key infrastructure components:
   Web server
   Application
   Database
   Easily distribute development environments to the team
   

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11. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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12. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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13. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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14. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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15. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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16. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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17. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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18. Parallel PHP Versions
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.3-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.4-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.5-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:5.6-fpm
    docker run -d --restart=always --net=host -v /srv/www:/srv/www 10up/php:7.0-fpm
    

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19. Map Application Ports
    upstream php {
    server localhost:9000;
    }
    

    

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20. Map Application Ports
    upstream php {
    server localhost:9000;
    }
    

    upstream php53 {
    server localhost:9053;
    }
    

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21. Update Nginx
    location / {
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    fastcgi_param ...
    # Use the upstream for php5-fpm
    fastcgi_pass php;
    ...
    }
    

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22. Update Nginx
    location / {
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    fastcgi_param ...
    # Use the upstream for php5-fpm
    fastcgi_pass php56;
    ...
    }
    

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23. Cool! But why?
    

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24. Docker - Advantages
    Build applications inside lightweight, distributable containers
    Isolate key infrastructure components:
    Web server
    Application
    Database
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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25. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Isolate key infrastructure components:
    Web server
    Application
    Database
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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26. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Make everything a separate container:
    Web server
    Application
    Database
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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27. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Make everything a separate container:
    Nginx + Varnish + Let’s Encrypt
    Application
    Database
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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28. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Make everything a separate container:
    Nginx + Varnish + Let’s Encrypt
    PHP + WordPress/Drupal/Joomla/etc
    Database
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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29. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Make everything a separate container:
    Nginx + Varnish + Let’s Encrypt
    PHP + WordPress/Drupal/Joomla/etc
    MySQL or Percona or Maria or RDS
    Easily distribute development environments to the team
    

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30. Docker - Advantages
    Keep your applications from colliding with one another
    Make everything a separate container:
    Nginx + Varnish + Let’s Encrypt
    PHP + WordPress/Drupal/Joomla/etc
    MySQL or Percona or Maria or RDS
    “Works on my machine” == “It works”
    

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32. Source: rancher.com
    

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33. Questions?
    

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34. Dockerizing Development
    Eric Mann - Tozny
    

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