[FIXED] Using Docker to run several web development environments at the same time

Issue

I'm tasked with maintaining several web apps, all of them using the LAMP stack. Some of them run on PHP 5.6, some of them on PHP 7.0, some using Wordpress, some using Symfony... Ideally, I'd like to set up at home testing/development environments that are as identical possible as the production ones.

I've been investigating Docker (warning: total novice here!) to see if it suits my needs. I'll be working on Windows and Mac, and I'd like to have in my machine several LAMP environments, each of them with their version of PHP/MySQL/etc., isolated from each other and all of them running in the same VM (because otherwise I might as well just use what I'm familiar with and set up different VMs). Can Docker do this?

(Sorry if this sounds like a silly question: reading about Docker, my impression was that the container philosophy allowed you precisely to do what I described without wasting resources like with VMs, and yet, I haven't found any guides about running more than one LAMP environment at the same time).

Solution

Okay, after a lot of time, I thought I should share the solution I found and that I'm currently using: devilbox. It's awesome, and once you get your head around it, it's incredibly powerful, flexible and customisable.

Answered By - PaulJ