docker-stacks's Introduction

Docker Stacks

Docker Stacks is a laradock GUI build on top of docker, electron.js, node-pty, xterm.js and the awesome laradock

Why a GUI?

Starting, stopping, re-building is pretty painful in Laradock when you're working on a number of projects
Setting up more than one project requires a bit of expert knowledge in Laradock, especially when someone is getting started, the desktop app solves this problem by using random open ports without editing any server config
Takes away the learning curve on knowing Laradock / Docker commands so that things can be done at the click of a button
Developers who still rely on XAMPP / WAMP gets a look how powerful Docker is as a development environment
Supports pre-build images for running Laravel or any PHP frameworks, Wordpress or any CMS in few mins

Installation (MacOS)

Run in terminal, it will create a hidden data directory and pull docker images and other settings (review source by going to the GitHub page)

cd ~ && mkdir .docker-stacks && cd .docker-stacks && git clone https://github.com/softwarefreak/docker-stacks-data.git .

Next download the app here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J04jNNohSED-4H38kFtNek0AeSVesUpJ/view?usp=sharing

MacOS will warn about the downloaded file as it's not a signed version, this is a developer preview. Before starting the app make sure you've docker running and have docker-compose installed

Once the app runs go to Images on the menu to spin up a new stack.

Create your own custom images and unleash the power of Laradock and DockerStacks by editing