Dear Community, I’m pretty new do Docker. I played a lot with Docker in my development environment but I tried to deploy real app only once. I’ve read tons of documentations and watched dozes of videos but still have a lot of questions. I do understand that Docker is just a tool that can be used …

+1 on this one… And to add a few things to the question: Is there any real benefit to having the containers laid out this way as opposed to php+nginx conttainers? (yes I know, I dont need php for static files, but then I could have nginx only and nginx+php container flavors…) What (if any) is the …

[image] roynasser: +1 on this one… And to add a few things to the question: Is there any real benefit to having the containers laid out this way as opposed to php+nginx conttainers? (yes I know, I dont need php for static files, but then I could have nginx only and nginx+php container flavors……

Hi David, thanks for your time! I’ll try and answer all points with some addtl questions/clarifications… Right, agreed on the application/code container… one option is also usnig config file containers…what do you think? any cons? We are using haproxy as the loadbalancer… Nginx is solely webserve…

This is a very thoughtfully considered question, and it’s frustrating that no one has come along to answer. It seems rather fundamental to application architecture. Something I would think most people running a Dockerized application should encounter, not some edge case. For what it’s worth @oleyni…

Hello @klsmith , I have not tried this, but might be worth a go. [Norbert Lange] docker and "volatile volumes" ala /tmp docker asked by Norbert Lange on 08:36PM - 09 Jan 16 Ron

I’m starting to come around on the idea of “single purpose/service container” instead of “single process container”, since in truth every container is already running many OS processes to get its job done. And narrowing the focus to “single purpose” instead of “single process” seems both simpler to …

I agree with the single purpose container. Most of the time you won’t have a choice, like Nginx master spawning workers.

One process per container is a huge misnomer IMO. Having nginx/apache + the mod for PHP and PHP source code in one container seems like the right way to do it, you need to make sure your app is stateless though. I’d bake in the PHP code to the image vs. storing anything in data volumes too. If yo…

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