How to Setup LAMP Stack on Docker System

Docker: 
Docker is the most revolutionized technology in virtualization world nowadays. Docker is actually an open source project which provides container technology. A container is a lightweight VM(virtual machine) or a process which allows us to install Linux based applications inside it. The container doesn’t have its own Kernel, RAM, CPU and Disk but it uses the underlying OS kernel, RAM, CPU cores and Disk.

In my this blog, I'm going to demonstrate, How to setup LAMP Stack on Docker system.


We will Create 3 Container as follow:

• Apache + PHP Container
• MySQL Container
• PhpMyAdmin Container

Prerequisites: 

• Docker
• Docker-compose

Step 1- Install Docker:

Before we provision our LAMP Stack, we need docker installed on your host. Follow my previous blog for installing Docker.

https://linuxhowtoguide.blogspot.com/2018/08/how-to-install-docker-in-ubuntu-1604-lts.html

Step 2- Install Docker-compose:

$ curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.23.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Make docker-compose executable

$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step 3- Clone git repository on your local system and change directory

Run the following command to clone git repository

$ git clone https://github.com/amarsingh3d/Docker-LAMP.git

Change Directory

$ cd Docker-LAMP

Step 4- Create Folder to mount with Apache and MySQL container

Before, we provision our LAMP container environment. First, We need to complete some prerequisites. 1-We will setup Two Directories, One for DocumentRoot and Second for MySQL database directory. Run the following command to setup two directories.

$ sh setupdir.sh

Copy phpinfo.php to DocumentRoot

$ copy phpinfo.php DocumentRoot

Once Directory setup successfully, we can proceed to provision LAMP Container stack

Step 5-  Setup Container for LAMP Stack

To provision LAMP stack run following command.

$ docker-compuse up -d

Validate Created Container:

$ docker container ls

You will see three up and running container. 

CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                          COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                            NAMES
326da5972785        phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin          "/run.sh supervisord…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour    9000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp   docker-lamp_phpmyadmin_1
c1a700d81c42        amarsingh3d/apache2.4-php7.2   "/bin/sh -c '/usr/sb…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour    0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp               docker-lamp_www_1
7480657c8ced        mysql:5.6                      "docker-entrypoint.s…"   About an hour ago   Up About an hour    0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp           docker-lamp_db_1

All Three Containers are up and running.

Step 6- Verify Container and Services:

In order to verify Apache container, check your Docker host IP address and access IP Address in the browser. In my case, My IP address is following

http://10.0.1.170

http://10.0.1.170/phpinfo.php

Verify PhpMyAdmin Access
To access PhpMyAdmin go to browser and access Docker host IP with port 8080
http://10.0.1.170:8080/

We have successfully setup LAMP stack on Docker host.