Tag Archives: docker

Adding a Moodle cron sidecar to moodle-docker via local.yml

Posted on May 28, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

The moodle-docker stack is designed primarily for automated testing — Behat, PHPUnit, and so on — which is why it doesn’t ship a cron container. A background scheduler would interfere with deterministic test runs, so the README’s only nod to … Continue reading →

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Local HTTPS for dev sites with Caddy, mkcert, and a reverse-proxy gotcha

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Running a local web app over plain HTTP is fine until something forces your hand — a third-party SDK that refuses to load on http://, a cookie that needs the Secure flag, or an app like Moodle that nags you … Continue reading →

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Running multiple Moodle instances side-by-side with moodle-docker

Posted on May 27, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

The moodle-docker project gives you a one-command Moodle dev stack — Apache, PHP, the database of your choice, mail catcher, the lot. What its README mentions only in passing is that you can run several Moodle instances on the same … Continue reading →

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When the third-party PPA goes down: replacing a Dockerfile with a pre-built image on Docker Hub

Posted on May 5, 2026 by ronaldpringadi

Three days, three CI failures, all rooted in the same place: the Dockerfile our build runs from rebuilds the world from scratch every single CI run, and every external source it touches is somebody else’s reliability problem. Here’s what that … Continue reading →

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Laravel Sail: a developer’s cheat sheet 🐳

Posted on September 25, 2023 by ronaldpringadi

Laravel ships with Sail — a thin command-line wrapper around docker compose that gives you the whole Laravel toolchain (PHP, MySQL, Redis, Mailpit, Node) in containers, without you needing to install any of them on your host. The only thing … Continue reading →

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