In my last article, it was clear I got the Apple M1 and I started using it for development. Laravel is my usual go to framework while developing and Laravel now has a little optional Docker development machine that can be added to it called <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/sail">Sail</a>.
After <a href="https://neoighodaro.com/posts/3-running-laravel-and-docker-on-the-apple-mac-m1">getting the M1 to work with Docker</a> I started using Sail and I quickly noticed the base image for the PHP runtime was over 600mb. As someone with a low storage Mac, I don&#39;t think I want to be giving Docker this much space to keep an image.
<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/807318/109423532-1365b580-79e0-11eb-955f-9cd51fe661f1.png" alt="Terminal Laravel Sail alpine">
So I decided to make <a href="https://github.com/neoighodaro/little-sail">Little Sail</a>. It is basically a drop-in replacement for the current Laravel Sail image runtime. <del>Currently it only supports PHP 8.0 but I think this will change very soon as I think it should not be too hard to have an identical image for the 7.4 version of PHP (feel free to submit a PR).</del> PHP 7.4 is now supported.
Anyway, it is available for use now and you can report any bugs or send PRs if you think it could be better somehow. I guess the next thing to add <del>to the package will be PHP 7.4 and</del> smaller MySQL images.

Little Sail: alpine-based images for Laravel Sail