Production-Ready Docker Setup for Laravel & Filament
A production-ready Docker architecture for Laravel & Filament featuring multi-stage builds, optimized performance, and secure runtime practices used in real projects.
Introduction
Most Docker setups for Laravel applications are… fine.
They work locally, they run php artisan serve, and that's about it.
But when you start building real Filament applications used in production, those setups quickly become a liability:
- slow builds
- bloated images
- security issues
- poor separation between development and production
I've personally run into these issues multiple times before refining this setup.
In this article, I'll show you the exact Docker architecture I now use in some production for my Filament projects.
This includes:
- a multi-stage build
- optimized dependency installation
- frontend asset compilation
- non-root execution for better security
- environment-specific configuration (dev vs production)
