LAB: Setting Up a Laravel Development Environment with Docker

Context

You are working as a senior developer at a tech company that is transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a microservices architecture. As part of this transition, the company has decided to containerize its development environments to ensure consistency and ease of onboarding for new developers. Your task is to create a Dockerized development environment for a Laravel application, including a web server (Apache) and a MySQL database.

Scenario

The company’s main product is an e-commerce platform built with Laravel. New developers joining the project have faced difficulties setting up the environment due to the various dependencies and configurations required. To streamline this process, you will create a Docker setup that allows developers to get the application up and running with a single command.