Docker with Symfony 4 - Unable to see the file changes - symfony

I'm working on a docker image for dev environment for a Symfony 4 application. I'm building it on alpine, php-fpm and nginx.
I have configured an application, but the performance was not great (~700ms) even for the simple hello world application, so I thought I can make it faster somehow.
First of all, I went for semantics configuration and configured the volumes to use cached configuration. Then, I moved vendor to separate volume as it caused the most of performance issues.
As a second thing I wanted to use docker-sync as the benchmarks looked amazing. I configured it and everything ran smoothly. But now I realized that the docker is not reacting to changes in code.
First, I thought that it has something to do with Symfony 4 cache, so I did connect to php's container and ran php bin/console cache:clear. Cache has been cleared, but the docker did not react to anything. I double-check the files on both web and php containers and the files are changed there. I'm wondering if there is something more I need to configure or why is Symfony not reacting to changes.
UPDATE
Symfony/Container does not react to changes even after complete image re-build and removal of semantics configuration and docker-sync. So, basically, it's plain docker with hello-world symfony 4 application and it does not react to changes. Changes are not even synced with container
Configuration:
# docker-compose-dev.yml
version: '3'
volumes:
symfony-sync:
external: true
services:
php:
build: build/php
expose:
- 9000
volumes:
- symfony-sync:/var/www/html/symfony
- ./vendor:/var/www/html/vendor
web:
build: build/nginx
restart: always
expose:
- 80
- 443
ports:
- 8080:80
- 8081:443
depends_on:
- php
volumes:
- symfony-sync:/var/www/html/symfony
- ./vendor:/var/www/html/vendor
networks:
default:
driver: bridge
ipam:
driver: default
config:
- subnet: 172.4.0.0/16
# docker-sync.yml
version: "2"
options:
verbose: true
syncs:
symfony-sync:
src: './symfony'
sync_excludes:
- '.git'
- 'composer.lock'
Makefile I use for running the app
start:
docker-sync stop
docker-sync clean
cd symfony
docker volume create --name=symfony-sync
cd ..
docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml down
docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d
docker-sync start
stop:
docker-compose stop
docker-sync stop

I recommend to use dinghy instead docker4mac: https://github.com/codekitchen/dinghy
Have a try to this repo for example too: https://github.com/jorge07/symfony-4-es-cqrs-boilerplate
If this doesn't work the problem will be in you host or dockerfile. Be sure you don't enable opcache for development.

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Multiple docker-compose: Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN from frontend to backend

I have 2 folders separated, one for backend and one for frontend services:
backend/docker-compose.yml
frontend/docker-compose.yml
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backend/docker-compose.yml
version: '3.9'
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image: nginx:latest
container_name: my-app-nginx
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
- '8080:8080'
...
networks:
- internal-network
mysql:
...
networks:
- internal-network
wordpress:
...
networks:
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networks:
internal-network:
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frontend/docker-compose.yml
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services:
nextjs:
build:
...
container_name: my-app-nextjs
restart: always
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networks:
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In the frontend I use the fetch api in nextjs as following:
fetch('http://my-app-nginx/wp-json/v1/enpoint', ...)
I tried also with ports 80 and 8080, without success.
The sequence of commands I run are:
docker network create internal-network
in backend/ folder, docker-compose up -d (all backend containers run fine, I can fetch data with Postman from WordPress api)
in frontend/ folder, docker-compose up -d fails with the error Error: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN my-app-nginx
I am not a very expert user of docker so I might miss something here, but I understand that there might be internal network issues over the containers. I read many answers regarding this topic but I couldn't figure it out.
Any recommendations?
Just to add a proper answer:
Generally you should NOT really want to be executing multiple docker-compose up -d commands
If you want to combine two separate docker-compose configs and run as one (slightly more preferable), you can use the extends keyword as described in the docs
However, I would suggest that you treat it as a single docker-compose project which can itself have multiple nested git repositories:
Example SO answer - Git repository setup for a Docker application consisting of multiple repositories
You can keep your code in a mono-repo or multiple repos, up to you
Real working example to backup using your applications that validates this approach:
headless-wordpress-nextjs-starter-kit and it's docker-compose.yml
I have found this thread here
Communication between multiple docker-compose projects
By looking at the most upvoted answers, I wonder if it is related to network prefix?
It seems like the internal-network would be prefixed with frontend_? On the other hand you can also try to locate the network by name in backend/docker-compose.yml:
networks:
internal-network:
external:
name: internal-network
The issue is external networks need the network name specified (because docker compose prefixes resources by default). Your backend docker compose network section should look like this:
networks:
internal-network:
name: internal-network
external: true
You are creating the network in your frontend docker compose so you should omit the docker network create ... command (just need to init frontend first). Or instead treat them both as external and keep the command. In which use the named external network as shown above in your frontend docker compose as well.

How can my Nginx Docker container, created through the GitLab CI/CD, use the html-files inside my repository?

to understand more about this topic I have set up multiple Docker container on my Raspberry Pi4 with the target of creating a functioning workflow.
Setup
Firstly, I have a working GitLab Community Edition with this image (due to compatibility for ARM).
Secondly, there is also the GitLab Runner I use, which is connected to the GitLab as well.
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Problem
Now to the problem itself:
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DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: "/certs"
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build:
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restart: always
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privileged: true
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directory index of "/usr/share/nginx/html/" is forbidden
I took a look inside the directory of this container while running, however there is no content inside "/usr/share/nginx/html/", which led me to believe that the pipeline or docker-compose don't have access to the files inside the repository or the path is configured falsely (most likely the second ). I tried to tinker a bit with the path in the docker-compose.yml (the first part of "volumes"), but to no avail.
In which way do I have to edit my configuration, maybe only my path in docker-compose.yml, so that the creation of the Nginx container takes the files from the repository?

SQLite mandatory environment variables for Docker Container

Grasshopper is a php web application that connects to a Bticino home automation gateway.
The two recommended ways to use it is either using the RPI image provided with all components installed or install it on a Linux machine with a LASP (Php, apache, sqlite) or LESP (nginx, Php, sqlite) setup.
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version: "3"
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image: keinos/sqlite3 #nouchka/sqlite3
#stdin_open: true
#tty: true
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#context: .
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ASP NET Core: Aliases in docker-compose don't appear in /etc/hosts

I have a Docker supported ASP NET Core app.
The docker-compose file looks like this:
version: '3'
services:
test:
image: test
build:
context: ./Test
dockerfile: Dockerfile
networks:
test_nw:
aliases:
- test_alias
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networks:
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But after starting the app I looked in the container of the ASP.NET Core app (docker exec -it ... bash) and checked the /etc/hosts file but the respective alias of the DB oracledb_alias does not appear in it. So the app does not find the DB when using oracledb_alias as host name in the connection string.
What did I do wrong? How do I solve this problem?
You did nothing wrong. Docker's earlier versions used to use /etc/hosts for resolving hostname and links. Now docker uses a internal DNS server for this.
So you don't get to see any information as such. Then only thing you can do is use a command and test if you can reach resolve the name or not
$ dig oracledb_alias
$ ping oracledb_alias
$ telnet oracledb_alias 1521
See the below link for more details
https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/networking/configure-dns/

Symfony app deployment with docker

I come here because I develop an app with Symfony3. And I've some questions about the deployment of the app.
Actually I use docker-compose:
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
build: ./docker/nginx/
ports:
- 8081:80
volumes:
- .:/home/docker:ro
- ./docker/nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
- ./docker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro
networks:
- default
php:
build: ./docker/php/
volumes:
- .:/home/docker:rw
- ./docker/php/php.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/custom.ini:ro
working_dir: /home/docker
networks:
- default
dns_search:
- php
db:
image: mariadb:latest
ports:
- 3307:3306
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=collectionManager
- MYSQL_USER=collectionManager
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=collectionManager
- MYSQL_DATABASE=collectionManager
volumes:
- mariadb_data:/var/lib/mysql
networks:
- default
dns_search:
- db
search:
build: ./docker/search/
ports:
- 9200:9200
- 9300:9300
volumes:
- elasticsearch_data:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
networks:
- default
dns_search:
- search
volumes:
mariadb_data:
driver: local
elasticsearch_data:
driver: local
networks:
default:
nginx is clear, engine is PHP-FPM with some extensions and composer, db is MariaDB, and search ElasticSearch with some plugins.
Before I don't use Docker and to deploy I used Megallanes or Deployer, when I want to deploy webapp.
With Docker I can use the docker-compose file and recreate images and container on the server, I also can save my containers in images and in tar archive and load it on the server. It's okay for nginx, and php-fpm, but what about elasticsearch and the db ? Because I need to keep data in for future update of the code. Then when I deploy the code I need to execute a Doctrine Migration and maybe some commands, and Deployer do it perfectly with some other interresting things. And how I deploy the code with Docker ? Can we use both ? Deployer for code and Docker for services ?
Thanks a lot for your help.
First of all , Please try using user-defined networks, they have additional features vs legacy linking like Embedded DNS. Meaning you can call other containers on the same network with their names in your applications. Containers on a User defined network are isolate from containers on another User defined network.
To create a user defined network:
docker network create --driver bridge <networkname>
Dockerfile to use user defined network example:
search:
restart: unless-stopped
build: ./docker/search/
ports:
- "9200:9200"
- "9300:9300"
networks:
- <networkname>
Second: I noticed you didnt use data volumes for you DB and ElasticSearch.
You need to mount volumes at certain points to keep your persistant data.
Third: When you export your containers it wont contain mounted volumes. You need to back up volume data and migrate it manually.
To backup volume data:
docker run --rm --volumes-from db -v $(pwd):/backup ubuntu tar cvf /backup/backup.tar /dbdata
The above command will create a container, mounts volumes from DB container and mounts current directory in container as /backup , uses ubuntu image and tar command to create a backup of /dbdata in container (consider changing this to your dbdirectory) in the /backup that is mounted from your docker hosts). after the operation completes the transient container will be removed (ubuntu container we used for creating the backup with --rm switch).
To restore:
You copy the tar archive to the remote location and create your container with empty mounted volume. then extract the tar archive in that volume using the following command.
docker run --rm --volumes-from dbstore2 -v $(pwd):/backup ubuntu bash -c "cd /dbdata && tar xvf /backup/backup.tar --strip 1"

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