Different aspects of the Ampersand user's environment can be containerized 1. Ampersand compiler 1. Modelling environment for Ampersand user (incl. VSCode extensions) 1. Prototype environment, including:

• Apache webserver with PHP

• Ampersand compiler

• PHP-composer

• NPM (Node Package Manager)

• Gulp

  1. Multi-stage prototype build, only:

• Apache webserver with PHP

• Generated code

  1. Prototype database

• MariaDB with default user/password

A docker-compose file is available to deploy prototype, database and supporting tools (like phpMyAdmin)

Deploy your local environment to run Ampersand prototypes

The project-template repository contains a docker-compose and Dockerfile to generate, build and run a prototype application.

Run: docker-compose up -d to deploy the following services:

• Apache webserver

  • Serves your prototypes

  • Available in the browser at http://localhost:80

• phpMyAdmin dashboard

  • Available in the browser at http://localhost:8080

• MariaDB database

  • Not directly exposed on host