Environment Types

Reward currently supports 8 environment types.

  • Magento 1

  • Magento 2

  • PWA Studio (for Magento 2)

  • Laravel

  • Symfony

  • Shopware

  • WordPress

  • Generic PHP

  • Local

    These types are passed to env-init when configuring a project for local development for the first time. This list of environment types can also be seen by running reward env-init --help on your command line. The docker compose configuration used to assemble each environment type can be found in the templates directory on GitHub.

Magento 1

The magento1 environment type supports development of Magento 1 projects, launching containers including:

  • Nginx

  • PHP-FPM (5.6 or 7.0+)

  • MariaDB

  • Redis

Files are currently mounted using a delegated mount on macOS/Windows and natively on Linux.

Magento 2

The magento2 environment type provides necessary containerized services for running Magento 2 in a local development context including:

  • Nginx

  • Varnish

  • PHP-FPM (7.0+)

  • MariaDB

  • Elasticsearch

  • RabbitMQ

  • Redis

In order to achieve a well performing experience on macOS and Windows, files in the webroot are synced into the container using a Mutagen sync session except pub/media which remains mounted using a delegated mount.

PWA Studio

The pwa-studio environment type provides necessary containerized services for running PWA in a local development context including:

  • NodeJS (with yarn)

Laravel

The laravel environment type supports development of Laravel projects, launching containers including:

  • Nginx

  • PHP-FPM

  • MariaDB

  • Redis

Files are currently mounted using a delegated mount on macOS/Windows and natively on Linux.

Symfony

The symfony environment type supports development of Symfony 4+ projects, launching containers including:

  • Nginx

  • PHP-FPM

  • MariaDB

  • Redis

  • RabbitMQ (disabled by default)

  • Varnish (disabled by default)

  • Elasticsearch (disabled by default)

Files are currently mounted using a delegated mount on macOS/Windows and natively on Linux.

Shopware

The shopware environment type supports development of Shopware 6 projects, launching containers including:

  • Nginx

  • PHP-FPM

  • MariaDB

  • Redis

  • RabbitMQ (disabled by default)

  • Varnish (disabled by default)

  • Elasticsearch (disabled by default)

In order to achieve a well performing experience on macOS and Windows, files in the webroot are synced into the container using a Mutagen sync session except public/media which remains mounted using a delegated mount.

WordPress

The wordpress environment type supports development of WordPress 5 projects, launching containers including:

  • Nginx

  • PHP-FPM

  • MariaDB

  • Redis (disabled by default)

In order to achieve a well performing experience on macOS and Windows, files in the webroot are synced into the container using a Mutagen sync session except wp-content/uploads which remains mounted using a delegated mount.

Generic PHP

The generic-php environment type contains nginx, php-fpm, php-debug, database (and an optional redis) containers.

Using this type, you will get a more generic development environment, with just serving the files from the current directory.

It is useful for any other PHP frameworks and raw PHP development.

Local

The local environment type does nothing more than declare the docker compose version and label the project network so Reward will recognize it as belonging to an environment orchestrated by Reward.

When this type is used, a .reward/reward-env.yml may be placed in the root directory of the project workspace to define the desired containers, volumes, etc needed for the project. An example of a local environment type being used can be found in the Initializing a Custom Node Environment in a Subdomain or in m2demo project.

Similar to the other environment type’s base definitions, Reward supports a reward-env.darwin.yml, reward-env.linux.yml and reward-env.windows.yml

Commonalities

In addition to the above, each environment type (except the local type) come with PHP setup to use msmtp to ensure outbound email does not inadvertently leave your network and to support simpler testing of email functionality. Mailbox may be accessed by navigating to https://mailbox.reward.test/ in a browser.

Where PHP is specified in the above list, there should be two fpm containers, php-fpm and php-debug in order to provide Xdebug support. Use of Xdebug is enabled by setting the XDEBUG_SESSION cookie in your browser to direct the request to the php-debug container. Shell sessions opened in the debug container via reward debug will also connect PHP processes for commands on the CLI to Xdebug.

The configuration of each environment leverages a base configuration YAML file, and optionally a darwin and linux file to add to base configuration anything which may be specific to a given host architecture (this is, for example, how the magento2 environment type works seamlessly on macOS with Mutagen sync sessions while using native filesystem mounts on Linux hosts).