Install Git on your machine https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git

Download these files git clone https://github.com/dadeg/docker-compose-nginx-php7-mysql.git

Install Docker-Compose https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

If you have any dependencies, you can just install them right in your project folder.

The containers will know about them.

Things to change for your app:

1. in docker-compose.yml, change the volumes folder to map properly to your project.
2. in docker-compose.yml, set the port to map properly to your docker host so it doesn't conflict.

Tips:

Install composer http://getcomposer.org

Install dependencies through composer composer install

start the web app:

docker-compose up -d web

stop the server:

docker-compose stop

build and migrate the database, should only need to do this once or when you want to migrate. It might be smart to make a migration handler.

docker-compose run webapp bash /data/www/db/build.sh

make a backup of the database, mysql container must have a volume set up to host. This will put the dump in your project's root folder.

docker-compose run mysql bash -c 'exec mysqldump --all-databases -h mysql -u"$MYSQL_USER" -p"$MYSQL_PASSWORD" > /data/all-databases.sql'

restore dump to the database (untested):

docker exec -i imageNameOrId mysql nameOfYourDb < ~/path/to/your/dump.sql

Global variables can be set in container-files/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params