Build Laravel docker image for production and push it on Docker Hub

Requirements

Install Docker on your OS.

Create an account on Docker Hub

Login to your Docker Hub account with the docker cli

Run this command docker login to login to your Docker Hub account with the cli.

We are using these following things to run our Laravel app for production:

• nginx
• php8.1-fpm
• supervisor

Copy these files in your laravel project root folder

• Dockerfile
• nginx.conf
• php.ini
• run.sh
• supervisor.conf

Build the laravel docker image for production

Make sure to configure your .env file before building the image

Run this command docker build -t <hub-user>/<repo-name>:<tag> . to build the image of your application.

Before running the command, you have to give these informations:

• hub-user: it is your Docker Hub account username
• repo-name: it is the name of your application. You can choose it.
• tag: it is the tag of your application.

Run to test the image locally

Run this command docker run -d -p 8000:80 <hub-user>/<repo-name>:<tag> to create and run a container of the built image on your machine.

Push your image on docker hub

Run this command docker push <hub-user>/<repo-name>:<tag> to push your image into Docker Hub.