Practical notes on using Docker in everyday development: containers, Docker Compose, local environments, multi-PHP setups, service management, and development workflow optimization.
While starting AVN Documentation AI locally, I almost ran out of disk space. Docker Build Cache had grown to about 29 GB, images occupied more than 31 GB, and the filesystem reached 99-100% usage. I show how I found the cause, why a conservative prune barely helped, and how I safely reclaimed tens of gigabytes.
SSH to GitLab works on the host, but Composer inside Docker asks for a username and password or fails with Permission denied (publickey). I show how I diagnosed the issue in Laradock and forwarded the host SSH Agent into the container.
I show how I configured Laradock for PHP 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 and replaced long Docker commands with simple dphp, dartisan and dcomposer wrappers.