WPDockerize: WordPress with Docker, made simple

Motivation

Every time we start working with WordPress, the choice for the stack to run this beloved CMS on falls on Docker: there are a couple of ways to run it, but the most convenient for completeness is using docker compose and building the whole stack with WordPress, MySQL, PHP, mail, etc.

Writing that docker-compose.yml by hand every time is repetitive though, so I built an NPM package that handles it for us: wpdockerize.

wpdockerize

You’ll find it here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wpdockerize

Installing wpdockerize

Installation is very simple, just run

npm install -g wpdockerize

and the package is then available globally. Obviously we need NPM (and thus Node.js) installed as a requirement.

Running wpdockerize

To launch it just run

wpdockerize

and after a series of simple questions your docker-compose.yml will be ready. All you need to do then is run

docker-compose up -d

to start your WordPress with the desired configuration.

Once the stack is up, if you also need a handy way to manage the containers from a web interface, I’ve also written a guide on how to update Portainer.

Have fun! 😃