This container is intended to run Laravel application's queues, cron, etc. and thus comes with a few items to assist:

• Composer
• PHP Extensions
  • mbstring
  • pdo_mysql
  • gd
  • pcntl (Required for queue workers as of Laravel 5.3)

spatie/laravel-backup Dependencies

• PHP extension zip
• mysql-client for mysqldump support

For a container to run nginx/fpm for Laravel applications, check out bkuhl/fpm-nginx.

Overwrite the container's default command to perform various Laravel tasks.

• Cron container: use command crond -f -d 8
• Queue worker container: use command php /var/www/html/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3 --timeout=0
• Migrations container: use command php /var/www/html/artisan migrate --force

FROM bkuhl/php:8

WORKDIR /var/www/html

# Copy the application files to the container
ADD --chown=www-data:www-data  . /var/www/html

USER www-data

# production-ready dependencies
RUN composer install --no-interaction --optimize-autoloader --no-dev --no-cache --prefer-dist