WordPress with Docker

This project is just an example how you can run WordPress in a Docker container environment

What do I need?

First, you will have to install the following applications:

Docker - This is a Windows installation. You can also find documentation for other Operating Systems on their website as well.

How to run the development environment?

After you successfully installed Docker, you might want to restart your computer, since there are some environment variables setup for you by Docker.

You can make sure that Docker is installed by typing docker --version or docker-compose --version in your command line tool

Now we are ready to boot up the development environment. Just type docker-compose up in your terminal. This will pull the necessary containers for you, and it will boot up the systems. This application is configured to create two docker containers. One is the WordPress itself, with Apache as a server. And the other one is MySQL version 5.7.

If you don't want to see the containers log on docker-compose up, you can just add the flag -d. This will run the docker as a daemon service, and the final command will look like this docker-composer up -d

In your browser navigate to 127.0.0.1:8080 or localhost:8080 and you should see the application. On the first run, you will see the setup wizard from WordPress. In future, we will have some type of database replication from QA so this step will not be needed.

Any useful commands?

Docker and Docker Compose have a lot of CLI commands, but here are some that you might use every day.

Running the containers

docker-compose up -d

Stopping containers

docker-compose kill

Removing containers

docker-compose rm

Force rebuild - after changes to the Dockerfile

docker-compose up -d --no-deps --build

Run a command in some container

docker-compose exec <service-name> <command>

ssh in container/service

docker exec -it <CONTAINER_NAME> /bin/bash

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