Build your Astro Site with Docker

Docker is a tool to build, deploy, and run applications using containers.

Docker images and containers can be deployed to many different platforms, like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This recipe won’t cover how to deploy your site to a specific platform but will show you how to set up Docker for your project.

• Docker installed on your local machine. You can find installation instructions for your operating system here.
• A Dockerfile in your project. You can learn more about Dockerfiles here and use the Dockerfiles in the following section as a starting point.

Create a file called Dockerfile in your project’s root directory. This file contains the instructions to build your site, which will differ depending on your needs. This guide can’t show all possible options but will give you starting points for SSR and static mode.

This Dockerfile will build your site and serve it using Node.js on port 3000 and therefore requires the Node adapter installed in your Astro project.

The following Dockerfile will build your site and serve it using Apache htppd on port 80 with the default configuration.

In order to build the Dockerfile above, you’ll also need to create a configuration file for NGINX. Create a folder called nginx in your project’s root directory and create a file called nginx.conf inside.

1. Build your container by running the following command in your project’s root directory. Use any name for <your-astro-image-name>:

This will output an image, which you can run locally or deploy to a platform of your choice.

2. To run your image as a local container, use the following command.

Replace <local-port> with an open port on your machine. Replace <container-port> with the port exposed by your Docker container (3000, 80, or 8080 in the above examples.)

You should be able to access your site at http://localhost:<local-port>.

3. Now that your website is successfully built and packaged in a container, you can deploy it to a cloud provider. See the Google Cloud deployment guide for one example, and the Deploy your app page in the Docker docs.

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