You can select any container that provides command-line PHP, and have multiple interpreters configured per-project – so if you want to have different containers for running PHP Unit configurations, one for running on PHP 5.6 and one for running on 7.1 for example, you can do that without a problem. The Environment variables… setting allows you to set substitution variables for the `docker-compose.yml` file. You then can tell PhpStorm which `docker-compose.yml` file to use as the Configuration file(s) and PhpStorm will then provide you with a list of containers to pick from in the Service drop-down. The Server option allows you to pick which Docker server to connect to (Docker for Mac, Docker Machine or direct TCP connection). When you’re adding your interpreter, still select From Docker, Vagrant, VM, Remote… and you’ll notice the new Docker Compose option. PhpStorm 2017.2 makes it easier to use your PHP containers defined with Docker Compose as your remote interpreter of choice. If you’re not using Docker Compose and would like to learn more, I highly recommend this blog post by Matthew Setter. This makes managing the web of containers needed to develop and (ultimately deliver your project using Docker Stack) much easier than having several individual docker files that need to be brought up in the right order. You can define multiple containers in a `docker-compose.yml` file which (typically) lives in the root of your project, and then you can bring up your entire infrastructure using `docker-compose up`.

This is considered the best practice when using Docker – one container per server, and in even rudimentary systems, these containers can ofter become numerous, with each container depending on one (or more) of the others.ĭocker Compose is a tool for defining (and running) multiple container application in exactly the way defined above. While Docker can handle single containers very nicely inside PhpStorm, often you should be defining multiple containers to handle different parts of your application a container for your database, one for your web server, another for PHP, one for your memory cache, one for your queue and so on. PhpStorm 2017.2 introduces native support for Docker Compose to make using Docker and PhpStorm even easier.

PhpStorm has had Docker support for a while now, and using a Docker remote interpreter has been a relatively straightforward task for the last few releases.

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