tips.md

Recipes, tips & how to's

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General Tips

Always be aware of the current layer you're working in.

• Your host machine: Here your development IDE is running, and you're working with GIT here.
• The vagrant box (accessible with vagrant ssh): Use this layer to start/stop/debug your Docker containers. See the Docker docs.
• The fpm container (accessible with docker exec -ti fpm bash from Vagrant): Use this layer to work "inside" your application. You can issue Symfony console commands here, install software via Composer or Yarn, ...

Docker related

Add a docker service

Working layer: Your host machine.

1. Edit the file docker/run/docker-compose.yml to include your new service.

Working layer: Vagrant box.

1. Restart your stack: docker-compose down, docker-compose up -d
2. See what's going on: docker-compose -f logs for all services, or docker logs -f YOURSERVICE to see the output of your new service

If anything goes well, don't forget to update the docker-compose.yml.dist file and your colleagues that they should update their local stacks.

Workflow

Destroy all local data

Working layer: Vagrant.

You local cache, logs and DB live inside the Vagrant box in the folder /home/vagrant/appdata.

You can kill anything there with: rm -rf ~/appdata/*

Load a SQL dump into your database

Working layer: Your host machine.

1. Put your SQL dump into the following directory: docker/run/data/dockerinit.d/mysql/

Working layer: Vagrant.

1. Shutdown your database: docker stop db
2. Kill all DB data: rm -rf ~/appdata/var/lib/mysql/*
3. Start your DB: cd docker/run, docker-compose up -d
4. See what's going on: docker logs -f db

Use the MySQL client inside your DB container

Working layer: Vagrant.

• Acess your DB container's shell: docker exec -ti db bash

Working layer: DB shell.

• mysql -u$MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD $MYSQL_DATABASE