What's in the Container?
As briefly mentioned in a previous section, Docksal ships with many developer tools to make developing with several common frameworks easier. The default cli service image has several without any extra configuration needed.
- Behat - a tool for testing using human-readable language
- Composer - a tool for managing PHP packages
- Drupal Console - a Drupal CLI tool
- Drush - a Drupal CLI tool
- Acquia Drush Commands - custom Drush commands to work with Acquia
- ngrok - a utility for sharing local applications over the internet
- PHP Code Sniffer - a PHP linting and error checking tool
- PHPMyAdmin - a web-based GUI for interacting with databases
- Pantheon (Terminus) - Pantheon’s CLI tool
- Platform.sh - Platform.sh’s CLI tool
- SASS and Compass - tools for compiling SASS
- WP-CLI - a CLI tool for interacting with WordPress sites
- Xdebug - a PHP debugging utility
Others are available as services
With some configuration, many services can be added to your application, including:
- Apache Solr
- Code Server
- Elastic Search
- Memcached
- Redis
- Varnish
Summary
Docksal gives you several helpful utilities right out of the box that allow you to interact with your application. With some configuration, others can easily be added in.