Docker Php Application Example

We can run php application using docker. In the following steps, we are creating and running php application.

Create a directory

Create a directory to organize files by using following command.

$ mkdir php-docker-app

See, screen shot of the above command.

Create a Php File

// index.php

echo ?Hello, Php?;

Create a DockerFile

// Dockefile

FROM php:7.0-apache COPY . /var/www/php

After that our project has two files like the below screen-shot.

Create Docker Image

$ docker build -t php-app .

In the below screen-shot, we are creating docker image.

Now look for the available images in the docker container.

The above screen-shot shows that the created image php-app is available.

Run the Docker image

Now run the docker image. The following command is used to run docker images.

$ docker run php-app

We can see that our docker image is running and output is shown to the browser. This image is running on the 172.17.0.2 ip.

Output: