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⁠PHP-FPM + Nginx for Laravel (Alpine & Debian)

Lightweight, production-ready PHP images for running Laravel (and other PHP applications) behind Nginx, in a single container. Built on the official php:*-fpm images, on Alpine Linux, with a Debian (trixie) variant also available.

Source and docs: https://github.com/tgivslife/laravel-alpine⁠

⁠What's inside

PHP extensions include bcmath, curl, exif, gd, intl, mbstring, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, pcntl, redis, sockets, sodium, zip and Zend OPcache. Run php -m inside a container for the full list of a given tag.

⁠Runtime and build variants

Every runtime tag has a matching -build tag that adds a build toolchain: Composer, Node.js, npm and Git. Use -build to install dependencies and compile assets, and the slim runtime tag to run the result.

⁠Tags

Tag format:

• Alpine: <php version>-laravel-alpine<alpine version>[-build]
• Debian: <php version>-laravel-<debian codename>[-build]

Latest per PHP version:

Older patch releases remain available on the Tags⁠ page. PHP 8.2 and 7.4 are end-of-life upstream and kept for legacy applications only.

⁠Quick start: multi-stage Laravel image

ARG PHP_TAG=8.5.10-laravel-alpine3.24

FROM stsdockerhub/php:${PHP_TAG}-build AS build
WORKDIR /var/www/html
COPY . .
RUN composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader \
 && npm ci \
 && npm run build \
 && tar --owner=www-data --group=www-data \
        --exclude=.git --exclude=node_modules -czf /tmp/app.tar.gz .

FROM stsdockerhub/php:${PHP_TAG}
WORKDIR /var/www/html
COPY --from=build /tmp/app.tar.gz .
RUN tar -xf app.tar.gz && rm app.tar.gz

# Optional: startup hooks (migrations, cache warm-up, …)
COPY docker/docker-entrypoint.d /docker-entrypoint.d/
RUN chmod +x /docker-entrypoint.d/*

docker build -t my-laravel-app .
docker run -p 8080:80 -e LARAVEL_SCHEDULER_ENABLE=1 my-laravel-app

The application is then served at http://localhost:8080/⁠.

A complete sample application (Laravel + Vue starter kit, with scheduler and Horizon test jobs) is in example-app⁠.

⁠Environment variables

All optional; defaults shown.

OS

Laravel

PHP

OPcache

PHP-FPM

Nginx

⁠Ports and paths

⁠Documentation

Per-version details (exact package versions, build arguments, full extension list) are in the version folders of the GitHub repository⁠.