You are here because you want to dockerise your wordpress. As containerization made it easy to deploy without installing anything except docker.

Prerequisite

Install docker and docker-compose, then you are ready to go.

Here is the tree for application

Create the application folder structure with the following

mkdir wordpress
touch docker-compose.yml
touch .gitignore

Folder structure looks like this

|---- wordpress/
|--- docker-compose.yml
|--- .gitignore

Step1:

Place the wordpress content in the folder wordpress by Downloading the latest wordpress from wordpress.org/download

OR

You can also download using wget with

wget [http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz](http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz)

tar xfz latest.tar.gz

After placing the wordpress content in the folder, tree structure looks like this

|---- wordpress
|---wp-admin/
|---wp-content/
|---wp-includes/
|---index.php
|---license.txt
|---readme.html
|---wp-activate.php
|---wp-blog-header.php
...........
............
|--- docker-compose.yml
|--- .gitignore

Step2:

Place the following yml configuration into the docker-compose.yml file

version: '3.1'
services:
wordpress:
image: wordpress
restart: always
ports:

• 8080:80
  volumes:
• ./wordpress:/var/www/html
  environment:
  WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: DoKRteST

mysql:
image: mysql:5.7
restart: always
volumes:

• ./db-mysql/:/var/lib/mysql
  environment:
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: DoKRteST

In the above configuratio, we are using official docker images wordpress, created and maintained by the Docker Community.

Running MYSQL as the container with the configuration as

mysql:
image: mysql:5.7
restart: always
volumes:

• ./db-mysql/:/var/lib/mysql
  environment:
  MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: DoKRteST

Here we are using the official docker image mysql, restart set to always if it goes down. Mouted the volume for Database persistancy, if the container goes down and restarts we should maintain the data persistancy. Environment for setting the Password of the mysql. To know more about the mysql docker configuration, indetailed explanation about the mysql as docker container.

Step 3:

To run the application with

docker-compose up -d

# OR, If your .yml file is name is different then

docker-compose -f your-docker-compose-filename.yml up -d

Give it a minute to run and open the application on http://localhost:8080

Here are some helping points to understand more about the YML configuration for docker-compose.

image: wordpress

“ When we run the container, the execution layers comes to the above line, it will check for the image in the image cache of the local machine, for the first time it won’t be available in the local image cache, then it will check with docker official dockerhub then it downloads it. “

restart: always

This lines is for mainting the application to restart when app goes down it self heals it self and runs by it own.

ports:
 — 8080:80

Application withing the container runs on the port 80, we are mapping the container port to 8080 to the host ip.