Trying to setup a completely rootless Lmpp (Linux MariaDB PHP phpMyAdmin) Stack on Podman for web development purposes

Note: I am new to Podman and containers in general, I haven't tried to compose or build images yet. This is still a work in progress.

podman pod create --name lmpp-stack --publish 8000:8000 --publish 8080:80 --publish 3306:3306

Creates a pod and opens the ports to listen to PHP, phpMyAdmin and MariaDB.

podman run --detach --pod lmpp-stack --name mariadb --env MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=root --volume "$PWD"/database:/var/lib/mysql:Z mariadb:latest

Creates a container with the latest version of MariaDB inside the pod. Gives a default 'root' password and the data from the database will be stored in the /database folder.

podman run --detach --pod lmpp-stack --name php-cli --volume "$PWD"/code:/var/www/html:Z php:8.3-cli

Creates a container with PHP 8.3 and its builtin webserver inside the pod. By default you need your codebase to be located in the /code folder.

podman exec php-cli /bin/bash -c 'docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql'

Installs the PDO and PDO-MYSQL extensions to the PHP container.

podman exec php-cli /bin/bash -c 'php -m | grep -i pdo'

Helps you verify if the extensions are correctly installed.

podman exec php-cli /bin/bash -c 'pecl install xdebug && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug'

Installs the Xdebug extension to the PHP container.

podman exec php-cli /bin/bash -c 'php -m | grep -i xdebug'

Helps you verify if the Xdebug extension is correctly installed.

podman run --detach --pod lmpp-stack --name phpmyadmin --env PMA_HOST=127.0.0.1 --env PMA_PORT=3306 phpmyadmin:latest

Creates a container with phpMyAdmin with the latest version inside the pod and connects it to MariaDB.

podman pod start lmpp-stack

Starts the pod and all its containers. Note: the pod already started when we ran the first container above.

podman exec php-cli /bin/bash -c 'php -S localhost:8000'

Might be needed to start the builtin webserver.

podman pod stop lmpp-stack

Stops the pod and all its containers.

In case something wrong happened and/or you want to remove the pod and its containers, use the podman pod stop lmpp-stack command first then:

podman pod rm lmpp-stack

Removes the pod and all its containers.

podman pod list

Shows all the existing pods. Helps you check if the pod has been correctly removed.

podman ps --pod

Shows all the containers currently running in a pod. Helps you check if all the containers have been correctly stopped.

podman rm -f <container_id>

Forcefully stops and removes a container. It should not be needed since podman pod rm lmpp-stack should have removed the containers as well.

podman images

Shows the downloaded images used to run the containers.

podman rmi <image_id>

Removes the image.