How to Easily Install Magento For Local Development Using Docker

🤩 Only 4 commands to install!!! 🤯

Below is a solution to install Magento using Docker and docker-compose to orchestrate the services. All the services required to run Magento properly will be containerized including PHP, nginx, Mariadb, Redis, Rabbitmq, and Opensearch. The local Magento code base will be mapped to the container for persistence. All this can be completed in 4 commands!

Prerequisites

Make sure Git and Docker Desktop are installed. That's it!

Build the Docker Containers

Navigate to the folder where you want to install Magento.

Download Repository .zip file

https://github.com/codecodeio/magento-docker-local-development

Run the Build Command

docker-compose build

*Any time you change your Dockerfile you need to re-run build. Use --no-cache to be sure it rebuilds everything from scratch.

Start the Docker Containers

docker-compose up -d

* -d means detached. Leave this off if you want the terminal to display the container log. This can be useful for debugging but all the logs are also shown in Docker Desktop.

When you need to stop the containers run:

docker-compose down

Check Services

OpenSearch

Check OpenSearch from outside the container

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty'

Check OpenSearch from inside the container. See the "Access the Magento container" section below to see how to do this.

curl -XGET 'http://opensearchvanilla:9200/_cluster/health?pretty'

Install Magento

Once the services are running, you can install Magento from within the running container.

Access the Magento container

Run the following command to open a shell inside the magento container:

docker exec -it <magento_container_name> bash

Replace <magento_container_name> with the actual name of your Magento container. We named the container magentovanilla in our docker-compose.yml file but you can check using docker ps. You can also use the container id here.

Magento Enterprise Authorization

If you want to install Magento enterprise you will need your authorization keys. If you want to install Magento Open Source you can skip this step. You can follow the instructions in the extra credit section below to add auth.json to the magento root folder to gain access to future updates of Magento Enterprise. Composer will refuse to install into a folder that has any files in it so we can't add that yet. For now set COMPOSER_AUTH as a variable in bash so the magento installation will complete.

export COMPOSER_AUTH='{
    "http-basic": {
        "repo.magento.com": {
            "username": "<public-key>",
            "password": "<private-key>"
        }
    }
}'

Check your authorization keys:

echo $COMPOSER_AUTH

Use Composer to Install Magento

Once inside the container, navigate to the /var/www/html directory (where Magento should be installed). You can install Magento using Composer:

Magento Enterprise Edition

composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-enterprise-edition=2.4.6-p6 .

Magento Open Source

composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition=2.4.6-p6 .

Set Up Magento

Once the Magento files are installed, run the Magento installation command. Make sure to use the correct database credentials that match those in the docker-compose.yml.

Inside the container, run:

bin/magento setup:install \
--base-url="http://localhost:8765" \
--db-host="mariadbvanilla" \
--db-name="magento" \
--db-user="magento" \
--db-password="magento" \
--admin-firstname="Admin" \
--admin-lastname="User" \
--admin-email="admin@example.com" \
--admin-user="admin" \
--admin-password="admin123" \
--backend-frontname="admin" \
--language="en_US" \
--currency="USD" \
--timezone="America/New_York" \
--use-rewrites=1 \
--search-engine=opensearch \
--opensearch-host="opensearchvanilla" \
--opensearch-port=9200

Restart Nginx

The magento install just created the nginx.conf.sample file needed for nginx to start properly. You'll need to restart this service to get nginx running.

docker-compose restart nginxvanilla

*You can also run docker-compose down and docker-compose up to restart all services.

Access Magento

Once Magento is installed, you should be able to access your site at:

http://localhost:8765

The Magento admin panel will be available at http://localhost:8765/admin. *Disable two factor authentication for the admin so you don't have to deal with this during development with thic command: bin/magento module:disable Magento_TwoFactorAuth

Wow You Did It!

Did you ever think you could install Magento so quickly??? It only took 4 commands!

docker-compose build
docker-compose up
composer create-project
bin/magento setup:install

😎

Extra Credit

1. Install Sample Data.
2. Add auth.json for Magento Enterprise Edition.
3. Run Multiple Magento Containers.
4. Import Existing Magento Code and Database.

Install Sample Data

Open a shell inside the magento container and run the following commands:

bin/magento sampledata:deploy
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Add auth.json for Magento Enterprise Edition

Create the auth.json File: In the ./magento folder on your host machine for any future updates from the enterprise Magento repository.

{
    "http-basic": {
        "repo.magento.com": {
            "username": "<public-key>",
            "password": "<private-key>"
        }
    }
}

Run Multiple Magento Containers

The docker containers are all named with "vanilla" as part of the name so you can easily identify them in Docker Desktop. The volumes are also named so you can associate them with this container and no volumes have been assigned random ids. This way you can easily remove them when not needed. Eventually you will want to create a second magento container which requires changing the 3 items below.

*The Dockerfile does not need to change.

1. Alter the docker-compose.yml file. Do a find and replace of "vanilla" with whatever you want like "development".
2. The nginx/default.conf needs to point to the new FPM container so magentovanilla should change to magentodevelopment.
3. Finally, the bin/magento setup:install script needs to change the db-host from --db-host="mariadbvanilla" to --db-host="mariadbdevelopment" and opensearch-host from --opensearch-host="opensearchvanilla" to --opensearch-host="opensearchdevelopment"

*You can only run one container at a time because the ports for nginx, opensearch, and rabbitmq will conflict. You could change all these ports and set environment variables so you can run more than one container at a time but I don't think the complication is worth it.

Import Existing Magento Code and Database

Create a backup of the existing code base

bin/magento support:backup:code

Copy the existing code base into the local code base

cp -R path/to/existing/code/* ./magento

Puth auth.json back

If you need auth.json to exist it was likely just erased. But it back or rename and update auth.json.sample.

Dump the existing DB

ssh into the server where your existing code base resides and create a sql dump using this command:

mysqldump -h host-sql-url.goes.here -u username -pPWD dbname > dump.sql

Connect to the local Mariadb service in Docker and start the mysql prompt:

docker exec -it <mariadb-container-name> mysql -u magento -p magento

Drop and recreate the DB:

DROP DATABASE magento;
CREATE DATABASE magento;

Import the Database

On your local machine run this command:

docker exec -i <mariadb-container-id> mysql -u root -prootpass magento < path/to/dump.sql

If you see GTID errors, remove GTID's from the sql dump file using this command, drop and recreate the DB, then run the import command again.

sed -i.backup '/@@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/d' dump.sql

Check the result of the Import

ssh into the mariadb container to run queries on the magento db

docker exec -it magentodev-mariadbdev-1 mysql -u root -prootpass

Check what the import is up to

SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST;

Check the size of the DB

SELECT table_schema AS "Database",
       ROUND(SUM(data_length + index_length) / 1024 / 1024, 2) AS "Size (MB)"
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'magento';

Check the number of tables

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'magento';

Update some db values to run locally

The database you imported will have settings that will prevent it from funning locally. Runing this update sql to change some data in core_config_data should resolve these issues.

UPDATE core_config_data
SET value = CASE
    WHEN path = 'catalog/search/opensearch_server_hostname' THEN 'opensearchvanilla'
    WHEN path = 'catalog/search/opensearch_server_port' THEN '9200'
    WHEN path = 'web/unsecure/base_url' THEN 'http://localhost:8765/'
    WHEN path = 'web/secure/base_url' THEN 'http://localhost:8765/'
    WHEN path = 'web/unsecure/base_link_url' THEN 'http://localhost:8765/'
    WHEN path = 'web/secure/base_link_url' THEN 'http://localhost:8765/'
    WHEN path = 'admin/url/use_custom' THEN '0'
    WHEN path ='system/full_page_cache/caching_application' THEN '1'
END
WHERE path IN (
    'catalog/search/opensearch_server_hostname',
    'catalog/search/opensearch_server_port',
    'web/unsecure/base_url',
    'web/secure/base_url',
    'web/unsecure/base_link_url',
    'web/secure/base_link_url',
    'admin/url/use_custom',
    'system/full_page_cache/caching_application'
);

Check the result of the core_config_data update

SELECT path, value
FROM core_config_data
WHERE path IN (
    'catalog/search/opensearch_server_hostname',
    'catalog/search/opensearch_server_port',
    'web/unsecure/base_url',
    'web/secure/base_url',
    'web/unsecure/base_link_url',
    'web/secure/base_link_url',
    'admin/url/use_custom',
    'system/full_page_cache/caching_application'
);

Change env.php settings

Change app/etc/env.php to match local settings.

Mariadb

• Change db host to mariadbvanilla.
• Change the username and password to what was used in the setup:install command, which was: magento.

Redis

• Change redis host to redisvanilla.
• Leave the port as is, 6379, is the default port.

Admin Url

• Take note that the admin url is set in app/etc/env.php

•   'backend' => [
        'frontName' => 'admin'
    ],```

Run some commands to get Magento up and running

composer install
bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento indexer:reindex
bin/magento cache:clean
bin/magento cache:flush
bin/magento setup:upgrade