Laravel docker compose configuration

default.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on php:9000
    location ~ \.php$ {
         root /app;

         fastcgi_pass php:9000;
         include fastcgi_params;
         fastcgi_index index.php;
         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  web:
    image: nginx:alpine
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - ./public:/usr/share/nginx/html:ro
      - .docker/web/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
  php:
    image: php:7.1-fpm-alpine
    volumes:
      - .:/app
  database:
    env_file:
      - .env
    image: mysql
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"
    volumes:
      - database:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: "yes"
      MYSQL_DATABASE: ${DB_DATABASE}
      MYSQL_USER: ${DB_USERNAME}
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD}
volumes:
  database:

This will read the settings from the Laravel .env file to set up the database automatically.