Magento is an open source ecommerce engine, developed by eBay Inc powering 240,000+ online ecommerce sites. Magento 2 is the next major platform release of Magento. The Magento 2 code base is pushed weekly to GitHub during development.
Only two containers are currently involved - a standard MySQL database container ('mysql') and the Magento 2 container. The Dockerfile contains instructions to build Magento 2 using Composer (PHP packaging system). It also loads a SQL dump of a database with a few sample records so you can perform queries out of the box. Trying querying for 'jacket'.
To run the default 'mysql' container, please name the container 'mysql' and expose port 3306 for the Magento 2 container to use. For the purpose of this demo, set the 'root' account password to 'admin'.
docker run -d --name mysql -p 3306:3306 -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=admin \
mysql:5.6
Do check that it started up (the -d makes it run as a daemon in background) use
docker logs mysql
An interestiong experiment for the reader is to replace the 'mysql' container with a Maria DB instance.
The Magento 2 container requires a linkage to the MySQL container and several additional environment variables.
docker run --rm --name magento2 -p 80:80 --link mysql:mysql \
-e MYSQL_USER=root -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=admin \
-e PUBLIC_HOST=yourhost.example.com \
alankent/docker-magento2-demo-apache:0.42.0-beta6
When this container is started, it loops waiting for a succesful connection to the MySQL database. Once achieved it runs a PHP script to create the database. A MySQL dump is then loaded to put a few products into the database. These two steps can take up to 30 seconds. Finally Apache is run. After it is running site can be connected to using a web browser.
Magento 2 is still under active development. A developer beta is due for release late 2014 with GA in 2015. The steps for installing Magento 2 are not finalized and are subject to change before final release. That is in part why this demonstration was put together. To make it easier for someone to get Magento 2 running.
To access the store front, use http://yourhost.example.com (the host name supplied as PUBLIC_HOST above). To access the admin interface, use http://yourhost.example.com/index.php/backend with a username of 'admin' and password of 'admin123'. (Obviously this is not intended for production usage!)
Be aware if you start a new container instance, it will wipe the database and start again.
This script currently does not load up any products - it is more to demonstrate the installation steps. Sample data is "coming soon".