@ssteinerX i could not find your email, so i type here. I’m very interested in Docker + Bedrock, could you please share your Docker configurations with me? My email is me@hmphu.com
I’ve built a neat development setup for Bedrock with docker over here: https://github.com/schliflo/bedrock-docker
Would love to get some feedback - so if you happen to have some time: try it and drop me a line if you like it or not. I’m happy to assist if you run into any problems.
Am I on the right track with this overall idea:
- containers for DB, shared files, unaffected by deploys
- container for app, hosting wp and the themes
- deploys build a new app container from project repo, swaps current container with new one
But what about compiling front-end assets and other sage tasks trellis automates when running the deploy ansible script? Anybody got a suggestion on that end?
https://github.com/schliflo/bedrock-docker is not intended for production use! This is only a local development setup. Actually deploying this to production will result in Wordpress never sending emails to your users as the app container is configured to use mailhog.
I thought about building production containers and deployment routines but I could not think of a valid use case as I personally think that running docker containers in production is not worth the effort unless you need to scale your service to thousands of concurrent users - at which point you’re probably building your own containers anyways.
Personally I deploy my stuff using Gitlab CI Pipelines - they are great for building Frontend assets, installing composer dependencies etc… So maybe thats worth a look 
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Would also like to see if the community would prefer a Docker setup over Trellis. Shipping a single container across server seems like a much better idea than having to provision each server individually.
Docker would be easier to scale & is more simple to use.
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I recently had to upgrade/provision Trellis staging with php7.0-fpm to php 7.1, and it didn’t went well - had to purge the php from the system to continue with the Ansible script; would not want that happening on a production site during update.
Updateability was always one of the “weak” spots I had with Trellis.
Having said that, I vote for Ansible + Docker approach: initialize the server and strengthen its security policy using Ansible, then use ansible-container functionality to deploy/upgrade applications and services.
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