If you need a quick jump start to setup a Docker based development environment for you Silverstripe project, there are a few options available

1) Have a look at the example setup I've uploaded to recon/silverstripe-5-docker-example

2) Have a look at brettt89's Dockerfiles

recon/silverstripe-5-docker-example

This is an example setup for using a Docker based development environment with a SilverStripe 5 CMS project, with Nginx and PHP-FPM.

This setup uses php:8.1-fpm, nginx:latest, mysql:8.0.20 as base images, and a self-signed certificate for the ssl port, only to be used locally.

Assuming you have an already existing project

1) Copy the docker-compose.yml file and copy the docker directory to your project

2) Generate a self-signed certificate:

```
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 3650 \
-nodes -keyout ./docker/nginx/nginx-selfsigned.key -out ./docker/nginx/nginx-selfsigned.crt -subj "/CN=example.com" \
-addext "subjectAltName=DNS:example.com,DNS:*.example.com,IP:10.0.0.1"
```

3) Run docker compose build --progress plain

4) Run docker compose up -d

5) Try to access http://localhost:8000 and/or https://localhost:8443

Notes:

• In the fpm-template.conf, use try_files $uri /index.php?q=$query_string; instead of try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args; as it might break the SilverStripe routing
• The mysql server will store the data in the ./storage/db-data - you might want to gitignore it
• If you encounter problems with the GD extension, have a look at this troubleshooting guide

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