Docker & Laravel Sail: Production Deployment 2026

Beyond Local Development

Sail isn't just for local — customize for production:

# Production Dockerfile optimizations
                FROM php:8.3-fpm-alpine
                RUN docker-php-ext-install opcache pdo_mysql

                # Multi-stage build for smaller images
                COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer

Docker Compose Stack

• App (PHP-FPM)
• Nginx (reverse proxy)
• Redis (cache/queues)
• MySQL/Postgres
• Meilisearch (search)