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Hello everyone, I wanted to know if someone knows any best practice to add python to a containerized Laravel application. Since we have the Dockerfiles in the vendor folder, that means that we can't edit them ( we can, but on deploy we would lose our changes and need to edit again the vendor dockerfile) So if i want to build a laravel application with sail, but need. a python script to run, how shoul i do? Thanks in advance
Do you need to run the python script from php? Or is it completely separate ?
To get the docker-compose file exposed run php artisan sail:install. This will copy it into your project
Also you should write a separate docker file for production. Sail should not be used for production. Its dev only
@Sinnbeck i have to execute it from php. Perfect, thanks also for the tip on sail, I'm pretty new to Laravel and Docker, I'm making some experiments with both but still learning
@Giuliano1993 Then I would install python inside the php container as it will need to run in on the CLI :)
@Sinnbeck Thank you so much. It was actually the first thing i tried, but i actually did it the wrong way. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now XD Thanks again for your help and time
@Giuliano1993 No worries. Happy to help. I personally use Lando to run my projects :)
@Sinnbeck i heard of it but never actually used it! I'll give it a look, thanks :)
@sinnbeck Goodafternoon Sir. May I ask on how to install python inside the php container using lando?
@markbalilo sure. Something like this
services:
appservice:
build_as_root:
- apt update
- apt install software-properties-common
- add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
- apt update
- apt install python3.8
Based on https://phoenixnap.com/kb/how-to-install-python-3-ubuntu
@Sinnbeck Thank you very much Sir.
@markbalilo happy to help. It's untested so might need some tweaks, but I think it's close at least
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