Docker development quick reference

This Quick Reference provides information about using Docker Compose commands, the Docker Compose configuration generator, and the Cloud Docker for Commerce CLI to configure, deploy, and use your Docker environment for application development. See the following topics for more detailed instructions:

• Install prerequisities
• Use Docker
• Configure and manage your project and environment

Docker Compose

Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. The following table lists the docker-compose commands for building, deploying, and operating Cloud Docker for Commerce. You can also use Magento Cloud Docker CLI commands to complete Docker Compose tasks.

The --rm option automatically removes containers when they stop. This setting overrides any restart policy specified in the service configuration and prevents orphaned containers from consuming excess disk space. See docker-compose run in the Docker command-line reference.

Docker Compose configuration generator

Use the Cloud Docker for Commerce .vendor/bin/ece-docker build:compose CLI commands to generate the Docker configuration files and build your environment.

Use the following command to view the available build options:

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php ./vendor/bin/ece-docker build:compose -h

See Service versions for additional information about the service configuration options for the ece-docker build:compose command.

Override configuration

Because the ece-docker build:compose command overwrites the base configuration, we recommend saving your customizations in an override configuration file. You can use this method to merge multiple custom configurations. See Docker Docs: Multiple Compose files.

The docker-compose up command considers the base docker-compose.yml configuration by default. If the docker-compose.override.yml file is present, then the override configuration merges with the base configuration.

Use the -f argument to specify an alternate configuration file. The following example uses the default configuration and merges each custom configuration sequentially:

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docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-custom.yml [-f more-custom-docker-compose.yml] up

Magento Cloud Docker CLI

Use the Cloud Docker for Commerce bin/magento-docker CLI commands to run docker-compose tasks more efficiently. For example, instead of using a separate docker-compose command for the build, deploy, and post-deploy tasks in the Docker environment, you can use the ece-redeploy command to complete all tasks.

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./bin/magento-docker ece-redeploy

The following example shows the ./bin/magento-docker command and output when connecting to the bash shell:

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./bin/magento-docker bash

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Starting project_redis_1 ... done
Starting project_db_1    ... done
Starting project_elasticsearch_1 ... done
[ ok ] Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
root@deploy:/app#

Use the following command to view the magento-docker CLI command help:

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./bin/magento-docker -h