I am trying to run my laravel application inside docker containers on my laptop (during development) and finding that the speed of the application is drastically slow when compared to running it using XAMPP for example.
My laptop is running Windows 10 Pro (64-Bit) with i7-6700HQ CPU, 16 GB RAM and SSD.
When I run my app in docker for windows, average page load time is approx 3.5 Seconds.
Running it on local XAMPP, average page load time is approx 350 Milliseconds (0.35 Second).
For my docker setup, I use the following image/Dockerfile:
FROM alpine:3.8
MAINTAINER Latheesan Kanesamoorthy
RUN apk add \
--no-cache \
--update \
apache2 \
composer \
curl \
php7 \
php7-apache2 \
php7-curl \
php7-bcmath \
php7-dom \
php7-mbstring \
php7-pdo_mysql \
php7-session \
php7-sockets \
php7-tokenizer \
php7-xml \
php7-xmlwriter \
php7-fileinfo \
&& mkdir -p /run/apache2 \
&& ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/apache2/access.log \
&& ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/apache2/error.log
COPY ./image/*.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/
COPY ./image/php.ini /etc/php7/conf.d/99_custom.ini
RUN mkdir -p /storage/framework/testing
RUN mkdir -p /storage/framework/views
RUN mkdir -p /storage/framework/sessions
RUN mkdir -p /storage/framework/cache/data
RUN chown -R apache:apache /storage
WORKDIR /app
COPY ./src/composer.* ./
RUN composer install -n --no-autoloader --no-scripts --no-progress --no-suggest
COPY src .
RUN composer dump-autoload -o -n
EXPOSE 80
and docker-compose.yml:
version: '2.1'
services:
mysql:
container_name: myapp-mysql
mem_limit: 512M
image: mysql:5.7
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: myapp
MYSQL_DATABASE: myapp
MYSQL_USER: myapp
MYSQL_PASSWORD: myapp
ports:
- "35000:3306"
redis:
container_name: myapp-redis
image: redis:latest
redis-commander:
container_name: myapp-redis-commander
image: rediscommander/redis-commander:latest
hostname: redis-commander
restart: always
environment:
- REDIS_HOSTS=local:redis:6379
ports:
- "7050:8081"
links:
- redis
app:
container_name: myapp-app
mem_limit: 512M
build:
context: ""
dockerfile: image/Dockerfile
env_file:
- image/env/development
volumes:
- ./src:/app:cached
ports:
- "25000:80"
entrypoint: httpd -DFOREGROUND
links:
- mysql
- redis
and I use the following commands to boot it up:
docker-compose down --remove-orphans
docker-compose up -d --build
docker exec myapp-app composer install --prefer-dist --no-suggest
docker exec myapp-app php artisan cache:clear
docker exec myapp-app php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
As you can see, the docker version uses redis as the driver for: cache, eloquent model cache, queue and session.
Locally for XAMPP, I am simply using file driver for all.
Any idea why the performance is so slow on docker?
P.S. The reason why I want to try developing using the docker environment is so that I can keep my development and production environment identical.
