How to Install Statamic with Docker

Overview

Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building Laravel applications without requiring prior Docker experience, and is a perfect fit for Statamic with a few tweaks.

At its heart, Sail is a docker-compose.yml file and script that is stored at the root of your project. The sail script provides a CLI with convenient methods for interacting with the Docker containers defined by the docker-compose.yml file.

Laravel Sail is supported on macOS, Linux, and Windows (via WSL2).

Installing Docker

If you don't already have Docker installed, head to docker.com/get-started and download the latest version for your OS.

Installing Laravel

Follow the install instructions for creating a fresh Laravel app from their documentation.

Install Laravel Sail into your new Laravel app with no additional services, unless you want to get fancy and use MySQL with Statamic (yes, you can do that).

composer require laravel/sail --dev
php artisan sail:install --with=none

Starting and Stopping Sail

To start all of the Docker containers defined in your site's docker-compose.yml file, execute the up command:

./vendor/bin/sail up

To start all of the Docker containers in the background, start Sail in "detached" mode:

./vendor/bin/sail up -d

Once the application's containers have been started, your project can be accessed in the browser at: http://localhost.

To stop all of the containers, press Control + C. Or if the containers are running in the background, use the stop command:

./vendor/bin/sail stop

Installing Statamic

At this point you're running Laravel without Statamic in it. Time to change that.

You can now follow the steps to install Statamic into Laravel.

Learn more about Laravel Sail

The Laravel Sail docs cover a lot more of what you can do with Sail. Check them out!