launch matomo in a dev container, available at localhost:8080. once the install completed (db host is "db") , you will need to add vim using apt-get to edit the config.ini.php to allow host localhost:8080.

db.env

MYSQL_PASSWORD=matomo
MYSQL_DATABASE=matomo
MYSQL_USER=matomo

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb
    command: --max-allowed-packet=64MB 
    volumes:
      - db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root
    env_file:
      - ./db.env

  app:
    #image: matomo:3.4-fpm
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: ./matomo.Dockerfile
    links:
      - db
    volumes:
#      - ./config:/var/www/html/config:rw
#      - ./logs:/var/www/html/logs
      - matomo:/var/www/html
    environment:
      - MYSQL_HOST=db
    env_file:
      - ./db.env

  web:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - matomo:/var/www/html:ro
      # see https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-nginx
      - ./matomo.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
    ports:
      - 8080:80

volumes:
  db:
  matomo:

matomo.conf

upstream php-handler {
	server app:9000;
}

server {
	listen 80;

	add_header Referrer-Policy origin; # make sure outgoing links don't show the URL to the Matomo instance
	root /var/www/html; # replace with path to your matomo instance
	index index.php;
	try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

	## only allow accessing the following php files
	location ~ ^/(index|matomo|piwik|js/index|plugins/HeatmapSessionRecording/configs).php {
		# regex to split $uri to $fastcgi_script_name and $fastcgi_path
		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

		# Check that the PHP script exists before passing it
		try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;

		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
		fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY ""; # prohibit httpoxy: https://httpoxy.org/
		fastcgi_pass php-handler;
	}

	## deny access to all other .php files
	location ~* ^.+\.php$ {
		deny all;
		return 403;
	}

	## disable all access to the following directories
	location ~ /(config|tmp|core|lang) {
		deny all;
		return 403; # replace with 404 to not show these directories exist
	}
	location ~ /\.ht {
		deny all;
		return 403;
	}

	location ~ js/container_.*_preview\.js$ {
		expires off;
		add_header Cache-Control 'private, no-cache, no-store';
	}

	location ~ \.(gif|ico|jpg|png|svg|js|css|htm|html|mp3|mp4|wav|ogg|avi|ttf|eot|woff|woff2|json)$ {
		allow all;
		## Cache images,CSS,JS and webfonts for an hour
		## Increasing the duration may improve the load-time, but may cause old files to show after an Matomo upgrade
		expires 1h;
		add_header Pragma public;
		add_header Cache-Control "public";
	}

	location ~ /(libs|vendor|plugins|misc/user) {
		deny all;
		return 403;
	}

	## properly display textfiles in root directory
	location ~/(.*\.md|LEGALNOTICE|LICENSE) {
		default_type text/plain;
	}
}

# vim: filetype=nginx

matomo.Dockerfile

from matomo:3.11-fpm 

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install vim -y