The devilbox

Usage | Features | Documentation | Run-time Matrix | Intranet | Screenshots | Contributing | License

The devilbox is a modern and highly customisable LAMP and MEAN stack replacement based purely on docker and docker-compose running on all major platforms. It supports an unlimited number of projects for which vhosts and DNS records are created automatically. Email catch-all and popular development tools will be at your service as well.

Configuration is not necessary, as everything is pre-setup with mass virtual hosting and also offers Auto-DNS.

Supported operating systems

_{It might run on FreeBSD, but I don't know the status of docker-compose there.}

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Usage

Quick start

You are up and running in three simple steps:

# Create docker-compose environment file
$ cp env-example .env

# Edit your configuration
$ vim .env

# Start all containers
$ docker-compose up

Selective start

The above will start all containers, you can however also just start the containers you actually need. This is achieved by simply specifying them in the docker-compose command.

$ docker-compose up httpd php mysql redis

Run different versions

Every single attachable container comes with many different versions. In order to select the desired version for a container, simply edit the .env file and uncomment the version of choice.

Apache	Nginx	PHP	MySQL	MariaDB	PgSQL	Redis	Memcached	MongoDB
2.2	stable	5.4	5.5	5.5	9.1	2.8	1.4.21	2.8
2.4	mainline	5.5	5.6	10.0	9.2	3.0	1.4.22	3.0
		5.6	5.7	10.1	9.3	3.2	1.4.23	3.2
		7.0	8.0	10.2	9.4		...	3.4
		7.1		10.3	9.5		1.4.36	3.5
		HHVM			9.6		latest

Enter the container

You can also work directly inside the php container. Simply use the bundled scripts bash.sh or root_bash.sh. The PS1 will automatically be populated with current chosen php version.

# Enter as user devilbox (normal operation / development)
host> ./bash.sh
devilbox@php-7.0.19 in /shared/httpd $

# Enter as root user (do root stuff)
host> ./root_bash.sh
root@php-7.0.19 in /shared/httpd $

Your projects can be found in /shared/httpd. DNS records are automatically available inside the php container. Also every other service will be available on 127.0.0.1 inside the php container (tricky socat port-forwarding).

Feature overview

The devilbox has everything setup for you. The only thing you will have to install is docker and docker-compose. Virtual hosts and DNS entries will be created automatically, just by adding new project folders.

Features

• Mass virtual host
• Custom domains (*.loc, *.local, *.dev, ...)
• Auto-DNS (Internal Bind server running)
• Email catch-all (Internal postfix with catch-all)
• Log files (available on host computer)
• Config overwrites (my.cnf, nginx.conf, httpd.conf or php.ini)
• Self-validation (projects and configured options are validated and marked in the intranet)
• Xdebug

Batteries

• phpMyAdmin
• Adminer
• OpcacheGUI
• Mail viewer

Tools

tool	binary
composer	composer
drupal-console	drupal
drush	drush
git	git
laravel installer	laravel
mysqldump-secure	mysqldump-secure
node	node
npm	npm
phalcon-devtools	phalcon
symfony installer	symfony
wp-cli	wp

Require additional tools? Have a look at Hacking for information about how to add your own tools or open up an issue with a new tool request.

PHP Modules

The devilbox is a development stack, so it is made sure that a lot of PHP modules are available out of the box in order to work with many different frameworks.

apc, apcu, bcmath, bz2, calendar, Core, ctype, curl, date, dom, ereg, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, iconv, igbinary, imagick, imap, intl, json, ldap, libxml, magickwand, mbstring, mcrypt, memcache, memcached, mhash, mongodb, msgpack, mysql, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, PDO, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, phalcon, Phar, posix, pspell, readline, recode, redis, Reflection, session, shmop, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, SPL, sqlite3, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tidy, tokenizer, uploadprogress, wddx, xdebug, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, Zend OPcache, zip, zlib

Documentation

Video Tutorials

To get you started quickly, lean back and watch the following videos on Youtube.

Documentation explained

The devilbox documentation consists of the following main sections.

Documentaion	Description
Overview	General overview
Quickstart	Everything needed to get you started in no time
Install	Installation information for different operating systems
Update	Update strategies
Configure	How to configure the devilbox and its services
Run	Explanation of different required docker-compose run commands
Usage	How to use the devilbox in detail
OS	Operating system specific information
Backups	How to backup and restore various databases
Examples	How to setup different frameworks: drupal, Yii, Symfony, Phalcon, Wordpress...
Technical	Technical background information
Hacking	Hack the devilbox and integrate custom stuff
FAQ	Frequently asked questions

Documentation

1. Overview
2. Main idea
3. Features
4. Supported Host OS
5. Requirements
6. Docker documentation
7. Devilbox documentation
8. Video Tutorials
9. Available PHP Modules
10. Supported Frameworks and CMS
11. Quickstart
12. Installation
13. Update
14. Configuration
15. Run
16. Project setup
17. Enter the PHP Docker container
18. Install
19. Install Docker 1. Linux 2. Windows 3. OSX
20. Install Devilbox
21. Update
22. TL;DR
23. Git tag vs master branch
24. Compare .env file
25. Pull new Docker container (Important!)
26. Remove anonymous volumes
27. Configure
28. Overview
29. Devilbox general settings
30. Project settings
31. Container settings
32. Intranet settings
33. Host computer
34. Run
35. Start the devilbox
36. Stop the devilbox
37. Attach/Detach during run-time
38. Docker logs
39. Usage
40. Mounted directories
41. Work on the Docker host
42. Work inside the PHP container
43. Managing Projects explained
44. Creating new Projects
45. Switching container versions
46. Emails
47. Log files
48. Intranet
49. OS
50. Linux
51. Windows
52. OSX
53. Backups
54. Info
55. MySQL 1. MySQL Database Backup 2. MySQL Database Restore
56. PostgreSQL 1. PostgreSQL Database Backup 2. PostgreSQL Database Restore
57. MongoDB 1. MongoDB Database Backup 2. MongoDB Database Restore
58. Examples
59. Introduction
60. Setup CakePHP
61. Setup Drupal
62. Setup Phalcon
63. Setup Symfony
64. Setup Wordpress
65. Setup Yii
66. Setup Zend
67. Technical
68. Networking
69. Ports and forwarding
70. Works the same on Host and PHP Container
71. Hacking
72. Rebuilding bundled Docker container
73. Customizing the bundled Docker container
74. Adding your own Docker container
75. FAQ

Run-time Matrix

The main idea of the devilbox is to selectively run and combine any version you require for your currently desired development stack. Services are grouped into different stacks, currently into Base, SQL and NoSQL. However there are many more to come. If you find yourself in need of a stack or service that is not yet inluded, just open up an issue or pull request.

In order to make sure every combination works with each other, the devilbox integrates extensive CI tests for the Docker container itself and their combinations. The following tables show the available stacks including git repositories and travis-ci checks.

_{Note: Entries without links or without build-status are planned, but not yet available. See ROADMAP for tasks and upcoming features.}

Base stack (required)

DNS	Webserver	PHP
Bind	Apache 2.2	PHP 5.4
	Apache 2.4	PHP 5.5
	Nginx stable	PHP 5.6
	Nginx mainline	PHP 7.0
		PHP 7.1
		HHVM latest

SQL stack (optional)

MySQL	PostgreSQL	MS SQL
MySQL 5.5	PgSQL 9.1	MS SQL 2017
MySQL 5.6	PgSQL 9.2
MySQL 5.7	PgSQL 9.3
MySQL 8.0	PgSQL 9.4
MariaDB 5.5	PgSQL 9.5
MariaDB 10.0	PgSQL 9.6
MariaDB 10.1
MariaDB 10.2
MariaDB 10.3

NoSQL stack (optional)

Cassandra	CouchDB	Memcached	MongoDB	Redis
Cassandra 2.1	CouchDB 1.6	latest	2.8	2.8
Cassandra 2.2	CouchDB 2.0		3.0	3.0
Cassandra 3.0			3.2	3.2
			3.4
			3.5

Intranet overview

The devilbox comes with a pre-configured intranet on http://localhost. It will not only show you, your chosen configuration, but also validate the status of your configuration, such as Do DNS records exists (on host and container), are directories properly set-up. Additionally it provides external tools to let you interact with databases and emails.

• Virtual Host overview (validates directories and DNS)
• Database overview (MySQL, PgSQL, Redis, Memcache, ...)
• Email overview
• Info pages (Httpd, MySQL, PgSQL, Redis, Memcache, ...)
• phpMyAdmin
• Adminer
• OpcacheGUI

Screenshots

Homepage with host / docker information

The homepage shows you the status of your current configured setup.

• which versions are used
• what directories are mounted
• where does DNS point to
• what other settings have been set
• did any errors occur?

Virtual Host overview

This overview shows you all available virtual hosts and if they need additional configuration (on the host)

Virtual Hosts are considered valid if the following requirements are met (on the host system):

• htdocs folder/symlink exists in your project folder
• /etc/hosts has a valid DNS config for your host: 127.0.0.1 <project-folder>.<TLD_SUFFIX> (alternatively the bundle BIND server can be attached to your host-computer).

Database overview

Shows you all the databases that are loaded

Email overview

Shows you all the emails that have been sent. No email will actually be sent outside, but they are all catched by one account and presented here.

Contributing

Contributers are welcome in any way.

First of all, if you like the project, please do star it. Starring is an important measurement to see the number of active users and better allows me to organize my time and effort I can put into this project.

Secondly, please do report all bugs. This will not only help you get your problem fixed, but also help others as they might encounter the same.

And last but not least, you can also get actively involved. Do clone the project and start improving whatever you think is useful. There is quite a lot todo and planned. If you like to contribute, view CONTRIBUTING.md and ROADMAP.

Major contributors will be credited within the intranet and on the github page.

License

MIT License