multibasebox

Serve multiple docker container with the help of haproxy. Requires a running docker-environment

How it works

Multibasebox consists of a simple shell script setting up name resolution and a haproxy container on your local environment.

For serving the different containers a separate docker-container named haproxy-config will be pulled and started.

haproxy is listening on port 80 and 443 and will forward all requests to a specific docker-image. It uses the hostname to distinguish the containers.

Installation

With phabalicious

Phabalicious is nicely integrated with multibasebox and has a dedicated command to setup multibasebox since version 3.3. Run

phab workspace:create

and answer the questions. The scaffolder will create a fabfile.local.yaml suited to your local setup.

That's it!

Manual setup

1. Clone this repository,
2. Run bash ./setup-docker.sh
3. Visit http://multibasebox.test:1936 This will show you the haproxy status page.

Integration with phabalicious

If you installed multibasebox with phabalicious, the following part is just for your information, as the phabalicious created this file already. Here's a short example for fabfile.local.yaml, adapt it to your setup and it should work:

dockerHosts:
  mbb:
    runLocally: true
    rootFolder: <absolute-path-to-projects-folder>


hosts:
  mbb:
    xdebug:
      remote_host: docker.for.mac.localhost
    blueprint:
      xdebug:
        remote_host: docker.for.mac.localhost

Linux-specific remarks

The script won't run the dnsmasq-container for linux, but there are some workarounds:

Fedora

1. Create /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-use-dnsmaq.conf with the following content

   dns=dnsmasq
   

2. Create /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/test.conf with

   local=/test/
   address=/.test/127.0.0.1
   addn-hosts=/etc/hosts
   

3. Restart the NetworkManager with sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

Other distributions

Add your hosts to /etc/hosts similar to

127.0.0.1 multibasebox.test <your-other-hosts.test>

dnsmasq is available for a lot of linux distributions and it should be easy to install. Adapt your local config to sth similar.

Setup a new project

1. Move your project-folder into projects or clone a repository into that folder.
2. Your docker-container should use the environment-variables VHOST and VPORT (defaults to 80) to signalize haproxy which hostname should be used and on which port the http-service is listening inside the container. There's no need to expose the ports to the host. See the documentation of haproxy-config

Phabalicious may help you to administrate your project and docker-setup. For more info visit fabalicious It can also new projects.

Usage

The containers are setup to restart automatically. If you encounter problems just run

bash setup-docker.sh

Status

You can see the status of haproxy at http://multibasebox.test:1936

Troubleshooting (Mac)

container are not reachable, Host is down messages

Test if name resolution is working:

dscacheutil -q host -a name multibasebox.test

If you get an error message, try restarting mDNSResponder with

sudo killall mDNSResponder

or reboot the machine.

Still not working? Then try the /etc/hosts-route.