This is our day-to-day backend dev stack

• Pre-configured PHP 7.2 FPM and CLI
• Pre-configured Nginx 1.11
• PostgreSQL 9.6
• Symfony 4.0
• Doctrine ORM 2.5
• Behat and PhpSpec as testing frameworks

• Docker 1.9+
• Docker-compose 1.6+
• Docker-machine 0.6+

All environment isolated from host system via Docker containers.

For understanding of how Docker works please read this articles:

• About Docker
• Visualizing Docker Containers and Images
• Docker Documentation
• Docker Compose Documentation

To simplify your life, you can use shortcuts available in docker/shortcuts shell script. To make it even more easy to use, just add path to this directory in your PATH env variable (in .bashrc or .bash_profile):

export PATH=./docker/shortcuts:$PATH

By doing this, you will be able to use short versions of commands:

php                         # run command in php container
console                     # symfony console running via docker container
psql                        # connects psql to your database using containers
compose                     # shortcut for `docker-compose -p app`. This needed until docker-compose 1.7 is released.
composer                    # shortcut for running composer (with php7 in separate docker container)
phpspec                     # shortcut for running PhpSpec
behat                       # shortcut for running Behat in test environment

To start dev environment, just run docker-compose up and you are ready to go.

To run test suites you can use support/scripts/run_tests script, or use phpspec/behat separately (see aliases section).

This projects template also includes xdebug extensions for remote debugging. To debug your application in PhpStorm you should configure remote server and set path mapping to /app directory.

In production environment xdebug is disabled.