{"id":3145,"date":"2025-05-07T10:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xlinesoft.com\/blog\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:35:28","slug":"running-phprunner-application-as-a-docker-container","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xlinesoft.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/07\/running-phprunner-application-as-a-docker-container\/","title":{"rendered":"Running PHPRunner application as a Docker container"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is Docker? Docker is a software platform that allows you to package, distribute, and run applications within self-contained units called containers. These containers include everything the application needs, like code, runtime, and libraries, ensuring consistent execution across different environments. <\/p>\n

How this can be useful? There are many possible uses of Docker containers. You can use them for testing for instance. If you have a website that runs on PHP 8.1 and want to make sure that switching to PHP 8.3 doesn’t break anything, you can create a container based on PHP 8.3 and fully test your app there before making a switch on the main website. Other options include distributing your application to your customers as a container or using containers for web hosting if your web hosting provider supports this option. <\/p>\n

In this article we will explain how you can package your PHPRunner application as a Docker container. <\/p>\n

Docker Desktop installation<\/h3>\n

As a first step you need to install Docker Desktop on your local computer. Just download it from the official website<\/a> and install keeping all default settings. <\/p>\n

Once Docker Desktop is installed, launch it. Two main sections we are going to work with are Images<\/strong> and Containers<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

A Docker image is a read-only template that contains everything needed to run an application, including the application’s code, system tools, and libraries. A Docker container is a running instance of a Docker image Think of an image as a blueprint and a container as the building constructed from that blueprint. <\/p>\n

Project structure<\/h3>\n

Create a new folder for our Docker project i.e. C:\\Project\\Docker. Here is how the default Docker project looks like. src<\/strong> folder needs to be created manually and this is where all our PHP files will be stored. Luckily, we do not need to create the rest of file manually, Docker desktop can help us creating those. <\/p>\n

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Docker init<\/h3>\n

Start by opening a terminal ( click Terminal icon in the bottom right corner ). First, switch to your project folder and then run docker init<\/strong> command. <\/p>\n

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