Here we are going to create three containers with three different Dockerfiles. There will be three different containers are: mysql as mysql_lara and this container for the mysql database and it will be using 5009 port, Laravel project as app_laravel and the project is in the same root directory called test-app which will be using 5011 port, http or php server as lara_servphp7 which will be using 5013 port. Lastly, we will create network which is using bridge network. However, creating the docker environment for Laravel as following - 

1. Create docker-compose file in the root and copy the following code and past in it,
   

   version: '3'
   services:
     mysql_lara:
       build: ./mysql
       container_name: lara_mysql
       ports:
         - '5009:3306'
       environment:
         MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: pass
       volumes:
         - ./initdb.d:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
       networks:
         lara:
           ipv4_address: 192.168.100.4
     app_laravel:
       tty: true
       build: ./app_laravel
       container_name: test_laravel
       volumes:
         - ./test-app:/var/www/html:cached
       ports:
         - '5011:80'
       networks:
         lara:
           ipv4_address: 192.168.100.7
       depends_on:
         - mysql_lara
   
     lara_servphp7:
       tty: true
       build: ./lara_servphp7
       container_name: lara_servphp7
       volumes:
         - /Users/hashimoto/git/soe_serv:/var/www/html
         - /Users/hashimoto/git:/var/git
       ports:
         - '5013:80'
       networks:
         lara:
           ipv4_address: 192.168.100.6
       depends_on:
         - mysql_lara
   
   
   networks:
     lara:
       driver: bridge
       ipam:
         config:
         - subnet: 192.168.100.0/24
   

    

2. Create a folder called initdb.d and in the folder create a file called dbinit.sql.
   
   
3. Create a folder called lara_servphp7 and create a file called Dockerfile and copy the following and past into the Dockerfile you created,
   

   FROM php:7.2-apache 
   
   RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli
   RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
   
   RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     libssl-dev \
     openssl \
     ssl-cert \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
     && a2enmod ssl \
     && a2ensite default-ssl
   
   RUN php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
   RUN php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
   RUN php composer-setup.php
   RUN php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
   RUN cp ./composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
   
   COPY ./php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
   

    

4. Create a file php.ini in the same directory(lara_servphp7) and copy all text from here past it in the file you just created (php.ini).
5. Create a directory called mysql and create a Dockerfile and copy the following code and past in it,
   

   FROM mysql:5.7
   COPY ./my.cnf /etc/mysql/conf.d/

    

6. Create another file called my.cnf in the same directory and copy the following code and past it in the file,
   

   [mysqld]
   character-set-server=utf8
   sql_mode=

    

7. Create a directory called app_laravel and in the directory create a Docker file and copy and past the following code in it,
   

   FROM php:7.2-apache
   #FROM php:7.2-fpm-alpine3.7
   
   RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli
   RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
   RUN pecl install xdebug
   RUN docker-php-ext-enable xdebug
   
   
   RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     wget \
     vim \
     libssl-dev \
     openssl \
     ssl-cert \
     && apt-get clean \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
     && a2enmod ssl \
     && a2ensite default-ssl
   
   
   
   
   RUN php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
   RUN php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
   RUN php composer-setup.php
   RUN php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
   RUN cp ./composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
   RUN a2enmod rewrite
   
   
   COPY ./php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
   COPY ./000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
   COPY ./apache2.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
   

    

8. Create a file called 000-default.conf in the same directory and download all the contains from here and past it in the file.
9. Create a file apache2.conf in the same directory and again download from here and past in it
10. Create php.ini in the same directory and copy and paste from here.
11. Create a Laravel project called test-app or any name you want but if you change the name then it is needed to change the name in the docker-compose.yml file you created at the very beginning.
12. Finally, go to the root or where the docker-composer.yml file located and type:
    

    docker-compose up or docker-compose up -d

     
    and open your browser and  browse

    https://localhost:5011

     

Finally, it can be said that installing docker and create docker images is simple and easier and it is totally independent platform to use multiple development tools thereby, it helps to reduce development and deployment Complexities.

Note: if there is some help needed for install to create docker image then feel free to contact ixora solution.