Using Docker to evaluate, patch or develop Drupal modules
Docker is now available natively on Mac OS in addition to Linux. Docker is also included with CoreOS which you can run on remote Virtual Machines, or locally through Vagrant.
Once you have installed Docker and Git, locally or remotely, you don’t need to install anything else.
In these examples we will leverage the official Drupal and mySQL Docker images. We will use the mySQL image as is, and we will add Drush to our Drupal image.
Docker is efficient with caching: these scripts will be slow the first time you run them, but very fast thereafter.
Here are a few scripts I often use to set up quick Drupal 7 or 8 environments for module evaluation and development.
Keep in mind that using Docker for deployment to production is another topic entirely and is not covered here; also, these scripts are meant to be quick and dirty; docker-compose might be useful for more advanced usage.
Port mapping
In all cases, using -p 80, I map port 80 of Drupal to any port that happens to be available on my host, and in these examples I am using Docker for Mac OS, so my sites are available on localhost.
I use DRUPALPORT=$(docker ps|grep drupal7-container|sed 's/.*0.0.0.0://g'|sed 's/->.*//g') to figure out the current port of my running containers. When your containers are running, you can also just docker ps to see port mapping:
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
f1bf6e7e51c9 drupal8-image "apache2-foreground" 15 seconds ago Up 11 seconds 0.0.0.0:32771->80/tcp drupal8-container
...
In the above example (scroll right to see more outpu), port http://localhost:32771 will show your Drupal 8 site.
Using Docker to evaluate, patch or develop Drupal 7 modules
I can set up a quick environment to evaluate one or more Drupal 7 modules. In this example I’ll evaluate Views.
mkdir ~/drupal7-modules-to-evaluate
cd ~/drupal7-modules-to-evaluate
git clone --branch 7.x-3.x https://git.drupal.org/project/views.git
# add any other modules for evaluation here.
echo 'FROM drupal:7' > Dockerfile
echo 'RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN composer global require drush/drush:8' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN ln -s /root/.composer/vendor/drush/drush/drush /bin/drush' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN apt-get install -y mysql-client' >> Dockerfile
echo 'EXPOSE 80' >> Dockerfile
docker build -t drupal7-image .
docker run --name d7-mysql-container -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -d mysql
docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www/html/sites/all/modules --name drupal7-container -p 80 --link d7-mysql-container:mysql -d drupal-image
DRUPALPORT=$(docker ps|grep drupal7-container|sed 's/.*0.0.0.0://g'|sed 's/->.*//g')
# wait for mysql to fire up. There's probably a better way of doing this...
# See stackoverflow.com/questions/21183088
# See https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/374
sleep 15
docker exec drupal7-container /bin/bash -c "echo 'create database drupal'|mysql -uroot -proot -hmysql"
docker exec drupal7-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush si -y --db-url=mysql://root:root@mysql/drupal"
docker exec drupal7-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush en views_ui -y"
# enable any other modules here. Dependencies will be downloaded
# automatically
echo -e "Your site is ready, you can log in with the link below"
docker exec drupal7-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush uli -l http://localhost:$DRUPALPORT"
Note that we are linking (rather than adding) sites/all/modules as a volume, so any change we make to our local copy of views will quasi-immediately be reflected on the container, making this a good technique to develop modules or write patches to existing modules.
When you are finished you can destroy your containers, noting that all data will be lost:
docker kill drupal7-container d7-mysql-container
docker rm drupal7-container d7-mysql-container
Using Docker to evaluate, patch or develop Drupal 8 modules
Our script for Drupal 8 modules is slightly different:
./modulesis used on the container instead of./sites/all/modules;- Our
Dockerfileis based ondrupal:8, notdrupal:7; - Unlike with Drupal 7, your database is not required to exist prior to installing Drupal with Drush;
- In my tests I need to
chown /var/www/html/sites/default/filestowww-data:www-datato enable Drupal to write files.
Here is an example where we are evaluating the Token module for Drupal 8:
mkdir ~/drupal8-modules-to-evaluate
cd ~/drupal8-modules-to-evaluate
git clone --branch 8.x-1.x https://git.drupal.org/project/token.git
# add any other modules for evaluation here.
echo 'FROM drupal:8' > Dockerfile
echo 'RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN composer global require drush/drush:8' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN ln -s /root/.composer/vendor/drush/drush/drush /bin/drush' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y' >> Dockerfile
echo 'RUN apt-get install -y mysql-client' >> Dockerfile
echo 'EXPOSE 80' >> Dockerfile
docker build -t drupal8-image .
docker run --name d8-mysql-container -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root -d mysql
docker run -v $(pwd):/var/www/html/modules --name drupal8-container -p 80 --link d8-mysql-container:mysql -d drupal8-image
DRUPALPORT=$(docker ps|grep drupal8-container|sed 's/.*0.0.0.0://g'|sed 's/->.*//g')
# wait for mysql to fire up. There's probably a better way of doing this...
# See stackoverflow.com/questions/21183088
# See https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/374
sleep 15
docker exec drupal8-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush si -y --db-url=mysql://root:root@mysql/drupal"
docker exec drupal8-container /bin/bash -c "chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/sites/default/files"
docker exec drupal8-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush en token -y"
# enable any other modules here.
echo -e "Your site is ready, you can log in with the link below"
docker exec drupal8-container /bin/bash -c "cd /var/www/html && drush uli -l http://localhost:$DRUPALPORT"
Again, when you are finished you can destroy your containers, noting that all data will be lost:
docker kill drupal8-container d8-mysql-container
docker rm drupal8-container d8-mysql-container