Ndtyjky

I have the following dockerfile:

FROM php:7.2-apache

LABEL name "medico-app"

COPY composer.json composer.lock ./

COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git zip && composer install

COPY . /var/www/html

EXPOSE 80

When this image is built, it has a size of ~500 Mbs. I'm trying to compress this image to < 100 Mb so that I can use it on Zeit Now. According to what I'm reading in the docker documentation, multi-stage builds sometimes help in making images smaller. My current idea is to split the dockerfile into two stages, one where I would install the dependencies with compose and the other where I'd just have php and apache. I can't seem to get it right though. Any suggestions?

This is what I have so far:

# first stage

FROM composer:latest

COPY composer.json composer.lock ./

RUN composer install

For the second stage, I tried this

FROM httpd:2.4-alpine

LABEL name "medico-app"

COPY --from=0 /app/vendor ./vendor

COPY . /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/

EXPOSE 80

However when I run the container now, the php files aren't served, I just see them as text. Im probably missing something here with PHP/Apache.

EDIT:

I also tried this for the second stage but I can't get it to work:

FROM php:7.2-alpine

LABEL name "medico-app"

RUN apk --no-cache update && apk --no-cache add apache2 openrc

COPY --from=0 /app/vendor ./vendor

COPY . /var/www/

EXPOSE 80

Now when I open my localhost I don't see the PHP files that I should see. I just see the default it works page.

General tips for making docker images smaller:

1. Use a minimal base image such as the alpine versions. In this case you can use something like php:7.2-alpine and install apache using apk.


2. When using apt-get follow the best practices. In particular add && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
   


3. Try minifiying the code being added to the image using something like gulp minify.