sail VS docker-compose-laravel

Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience.

If this is your issue I can totally understand why it's closed. https://github.com/laravel/sail/issues/470

This is the default Dockerfile for the PHP 8.1 image that will be published to your project. Just add extra apt-get commands to install the extensions you need and then rebuild the images.

Update: I found in the laravel/sail repo that a bug was reported and a PR was created on it here: https://github.com/laravel/sail/issues/383

PHP 8.1 support added to Laravel Sail starting from v1.12.0. Meanwhile, they have replaced the mysql:8.0 Docker image with mysql/mysql-server:8.0 image in this pull request. Keeping all these things in mind, let's update the Laravel Sail to the latest version to use PHP 8.1.

I recommend using sail, it is pretty reasonable and for non laravel projects just get some inspiration from sail's github repo: https://github.com/laravel/sail/tree/1.x/runtimes/8.0

If it supports Docker, it can be installed in Laravel Sail (I have already submitted a PR for this)

This has been my experience. On top of this, it seems that there has been a recent change to Sail regarding Xdebug that has rendered every write-up I could find obsolete; https://github.com/laravel/sail/commit/5117805061fc9fb3e224beb7b69c092029761733

They did... for example https://github.com/aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel/issues/145 was an ascii art penis but it was deleted by github staff. Another one I saw was anime hentai art.

I've been maintaining and iterating on a basic Docker Compose setup for Laravel over the last year or so. It's worked well enough for local development, which was what I originally intended it for. Ever since I released it though, I've had multiple people sending me concerns and GitHub issues surrounding permissions problems.

If you'd like to dive into my setup, you can check it out on GitHub: github.com/aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel/blob/main/docker-compose.yml

Here's a laravel project template that includes mysql, nginx, php, and redis as a docker-compose file: https://github.com/aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel

I honestly just rolled my own with Docker and Docker Compose. You can check out what I've been using for every new project in this repo here if you want to see how I did it. If I was starting again from scratch today, I'd still probably go the same route (maybe consolidating the webserver/php containers into one image, but it's worked great for local dev so far).

I have a repo that I've been tweaking over the course of the last year that's my go-to starter kit for all of my local project's dev environments.

Dockerfile (I'm using https://github.com/aschmelyun/docker-compose-laravel)