This is my preferred development environment for open source Magento extensions. Not the recommended way, but all in one Docker container. This image is build on Debian Jessie and contains the following software or packages.

• wget
• curl
• git
• sudo
• apache2
• mysql-server
• php5

• cli
• mysql
• mcrypt
• curl
• gd

• n98-magerun
• Magento 1.9
• modman

You can build the image with the following command. This can take a long time. Please replace <image> with something meaningful like mage1 for example.

$ docker build -t <image> .

You can run the container with the following command. Please replace <module_dir_host>, <module_dir_container>, <port>, <container> with something meaningful like ~/Projects/Lesti_Fpc, /Lesti_Fpc, 8080 and fpc for example.

$ docker run -d -v <module_dir_host>:<module_dir_container> -p <port>:80 --name <container> <image>

Please visit the Magento frontend under http://127.0.0.1:<port> and backend under http://127.0.0.1:<port>/admin. The credentials are admin and password123.

You can jump into the running container with the following command.

$ docker exec -ti <container> bash

The magento installation is under the directory /opt/magento. You can install a Magento extension that is shared in the directory /Lesti_Fpc for example by the following command.

$ cd /opt/magento
$ ./modman link /Lesti_Fpc

You can stop the container with the following command.

$ docker stop <container>

You can start the container again with the following command.

$ docker start <container>