How to configure different dockerfile for development and production

Question

I use docker for development and in production for laravel project. I have slightly different dockerfile for development and production. For example I am mounting local director

Answer 1

I have tried several approaches to this, including using docker-compose, a multi-stage build, passing an argument through a file and the approaches used in other answers. My company needed a good way to do this and after trying these, here is my opinion.

The best method is to pass the arg through the cmd. You can pass it through vscode while right clicking and choosing build image Image of visual studio code while clicking image build using this code:

ARG BuildMode
RUN echo $BuildMode
RUN if [ "$BuildMode" = "debug" ] ; then apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
       unzip \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && curl -sSL https://aka.ms/getvsdbgsh | bash /dev/stdin -v latest -l /vsdbg ; fi

and in the build section of dockerfile:

ARG BuildMode
ENV Environment=${BuildMode:-debug}
RUN dotnet build "debugging.csproj" -c $Environment -o /app

FROM build AS publish
RUN dotnet publish "debugging.csproj" -c $Environment -o /app