Hi,
I have heard and worked with docker several times, but never got a chance to write about the installation. So this time I wanted to share the steps I had taken to install docker on windows and then install Magento 2.4.3 on it.
So first I downloaded docker from this link https://docs.docker.com/desktop/windows/install/ and installed it on windows 10.
I also installed the WSL 2 backend for this docker setup. After installation when I run the command docker -v. The version was 20.10.13
In windows docker-compose comes with docker installation, unlike Linux. Then I downloaded Magento from https://magento.com/tech-resources/download
After that unzipped Magento into a directory, then inside the same directory created a file with the name docker-compose.yml and added the below contents.
version: '3'
services:
web:
image: webdevops/php-apache:7.4
container_name: web
restart: always
user: application
environment:
- WEB_ALIAS_DOMAIN=local.magento.com
- WEB_DOCUMENT_ROOT=/app/pub
- PHP_DATE_TIMEZONE=EST
- PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS=1
- PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=2048M
- PHP_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=300
- PHP_POST_MAX_SIZE=500M
- PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE=1024M
volumes:
- .:/app:cached
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
- "32823:22"
links:
- mysql
mysql:
image: mysql:8.0
container_name: mysql
restart: "no"
restart: always
restart: on-failure
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "3306:3306"
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
- MYSQL_DATABASE=magento
volumes:
- db-data:/var/lib/mysql
elasticsearch:
container_name: es-container
image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.16.0
environment:
- xpack.security.enabled=false
- "discovery.type=single-node"
networks:
- es-net
ports:
- 9200:9200
phpmyadmin:
container_name: phpmyadmin
restart: always
image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:latest
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
- PMA_USER=root
- PMA_PASSWORD=root
ports:
- "8080:80"
links:
- mysql:db
depends_on:
- mysql
volumes:
db-data:
external: false
networks:
es-net:
driver: bridge
After creating this file, run docker-compose config. This will check if there are any errors in your docker-compose.yml. You can check the configuration.
After we need to run the command docker-compose up
This should start all the containers for apache, mysql, elasticsearch and phpmyadmin.
Please note that docker on windows is probably not as fast as wamp on windows. But if you have to check something quickly, this is a good option.
Entrepreneur 
Could you provide more information on how to download Magento. There seems to be multiple versions and even then I can’t find a zip file to download.
Hi, As an alternative I think recently we have started using composer as a preferred way of downloading Magento. Here is the link for that https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/install-gde/composer.html.
However, we do plan to write another blog that should contain the details of the zip file as well for downloading Magento. I will keep you updated on that as well.
Great thanks, that did the job.