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Docker support

Besides generating a PHAR, you may want to create a Docker image for your application. To do so, you can either:

  • Directly generate the Dockerfile when generating the PHAR with the --with-docker option of the Box compile command
  • Generate the Dockerfile for a given PHAR with the Box docker command

The command will attempt to generate a Dockerfile for your PHAR, leveraging the requirement checker. Once the file generated, you have free hands on it: you can either use it right away (you just need to run $ docker build . to create the docker image) or you can tweak it however you want.

In your Dockerfile (generated by Box), you should see the following line:

RUN $(php -r '$extensionInstalled = array_map("strtolower", \get_loaded_extensions(false));$requiredExtensions = ["zlib", "phar", "openssl", "pcre", "tokenizer"];$extensionsToInstall = array_diff($requiredExtensions, $extensionInstalled);if ([] !== $extensionsToInstall) {echo \sprintf("docker-php-ext-install %s", implode(" ", $extensionsToInstall));}echo "echo \"No extensions\"";')

This cryptic one-liner PHP script is about installing the required extensions for your application: it compares the ones your application requires with the ones already provided by the base PHP image, and then install them using the docker-php-ext-install command. It is however possible that this fails for various reason: the extension is not a known one, it cannot be installed the traditional way, it needs to be compiled with PHP... For all those cases (unless you have a better way to handle it in which case PRs are welcomed) you will have to dirty your hands and tweak the Dockerfile to your needs.


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