1.
Local Drupal development using
docksal
Presented by – Sharique Ahmed
Farooqui

2.
Who am I ?
● Name – Sharique Ahmed Farooqui
● Company - Acquia India
● Using Drupal since version 4.7

3.
Agenda
• What is docksal
• Installing dockal/fin
• Creating drupal project
• Adding docksal configuration
• QnA
• Links

4.
Pre-requisite
● Docker
● Git
● Nice to have – PHP, composer

5.
What Docksal
● Docksal is docker powered environment for web
development
● It support Drupal, Symfony, WordPress, laravel.. Etc
● It also support nodejs and go based frameworks
● It even support plain html
● ‘fin’ is the command line tool
● Project can be started with Zero configuration

6.
Installing docksal
● Install docker
● Install fin using command
● Mac `curl -fsSL get.docksal.io | DOCKER_NATIVE=1 bash`
● Linux /windows ‘curl -fsSL get.docksal.io | bash’

7.
Creating new project
● Command “fin project create”
● It ask 2 question and confirmation
● Project type
● Project name
● At the end you will have up and running Drupal 8
site.

8.
Adding to existing project
● Create .docksal folder in project root
● Run ‘fin config generate’, it creates 2 files docksal.yml and
docksal.env
● Start project ‘fin p start’ or ‘fin project start’

9.
Docksal plugin
It is have few useful addons
• Uli
• Pma – phpMyAdmin
• Phpunit
• solr

10.
Links
● Official site - https://docksal.io
● Documentation -https://docs.docksal.io
● Github repo - https://github.com/docksal
● Addons -https://docs.docksal.io/fin/addons/

11.
THANK YOU