Laravel Gitlab-CI

About

A Dockerfile for building an image for your Laravel app Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.

Table of Contents

• Folder Structure
• Packages and Services
  • Customizing build versions
  • Adding more PHP extensions
  • Adding more packages
  • Testing
• References

Folder Structure

Although folder structure is self-explanatory, description is as below:

.
├── Dockerfile
├── LICENSE
├── readme.md
├── scripts
│   ├── cleanup.sh            # Removes build dependencies for lighter image size.
│   ├── install-node-yarn.sh  # Install your global npm/yarn packages here.
│   ├── install-packages.sh   # OS packages will be installed by this file.
│   └── install-php.sh        # PHP extensions and installation.
└── tests
    └── goss.yaml             # See "testing" section

Packages and Services

We created the Dockerfile with image size in mind, only packages and PHP extensions which are absolutely necessary are installed.

Service	Version	Argument
PHP	8.2.0	PHP_VERSION
Composer	2.2.5	COMPOSER_VERSION
Node	21.0.0	NODE_VERSION
NPM	10.2.0	NPM_VERSION
Yarn	latest	N/A
reg	latest	N/A
cfcli	latest	N/A
local-php-security-checker	latest	N/A

Customizing build versions

As you can see in the table above, some services have an argument in Dockerfile for you to modify the installation version. To do so, you need to clone the repo and build the image yourself:

git clone https://github.com/laramatics/gitlab-ci.git
cd gitlab-ci
# Modify files...
docker build \
  --build-arg NPM_VERSION=9.2.0 \
  --build-arg PHP_VERSION=8.2.0 \
  -t <image_name> .

Adding more PHP extensions

If you want to add more extensions to the PHP installation, you will have to build your own image based on the one already built or modify the Dockerfile and scripts/* to your liking and build your own image from it.

See Docker PHP Extension Installer for available extensions, alternatively you can install them fom source.

FROM laramatics/gitlab-ci:latest
# Add your extentions here...
RUN docker-php-ext-install -j "$(nproc)" <package_name>

Adding more packages

Sometimes you need a specific package for your pipeline; as described in the previous section, you can build your own image from laramatics/gitlab-ci or clone this repo and modify files to suit your needs.

git clone https://github.com/laramatics/gitlab-ci.git
cd gitlab-ci
# Modify files...
docker build -t <image_name> .

Testing

Tests are written using GOSS, to test your changes after modifying source files and building your own image, run:

GOSS_FILES_PATH=tests dgoss run -it <image_name>

References

• Useful issue