matriphe/alpine-composer repository overview

⁠Alpine Composer

The Composer⁠ docker image based on Alpine⁠. Alpine is based on Alpine Linux⁠, lightweight Linux distribution based on BusyBox⁠. The size of the image is very small, less than 50 MB!

⁠Tags

Versions and are based on PHP versions.

Here are the supported tags and respective Dockerfile links.

• latest (Dockerfile)⁠

⁠Getting The Image

This image is published in the Docker Hub. Simply run this command below to get it to your machine.

docker pull matriphe/alpine-composer:latest

Alternatively you can clone this repository and build the image using the docker build command.

⁠Run The Container

⁠Create and Run The Container

docker run --rm --name=composer -v $(pwd):/app matriphe/alpine-composer:latest

If you run and want to link Nginx container, make sure you created and run this PHP-FPM the container before running this Nginx container. Make sure the /www volume in PHP-FPM container is mapped.

• The first --rm argument use to rebuild older container if exists.
• The --name argument sets the name of the container.
• The -v argument maps current directory to /app directory in container, so the results of composer will be persistent.

⁠Create an alias

Add to your ~/.bashrc this line, so you can just type composer command from command line. Make sure the docker engine is running.

alias composer='docker run --rm --name=composer -v $(pwd):/www matriphe/alpine-composer:latest composer'

And then execute this command to make alias working.

source ~/.bashrc

Now you can just simply type composer from command line.