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
UPDATE (2020): Since this was written 3 years ago, many things have changed (including my opinion about this topic). My suggested way of doing this, is using one dockerfile and using scripts. Please see @yamenk's answer.
ORIGINAL:
You can use two different Dockerfiles.
# ./Dockerfile (non production)
FROM foo/bar
MAINTAINER ...
# ....
And a second one:
# ./Dockerfile.production
FROM foo/bar
MAINTAINER ...
RUN composer install
While calling the build command, you can tell which file it should use:
$> docker build -t mytag .
$> docker build -t mytag-production -f Dockerfile.production .