WordPress on PhotonOS under Docker
To build upon my previous docker/photon post here, I wanted to move away from the theory and show you how you can download VMware’s Photon OS, install Docker, and then run a WordPress container to show it all in action. It’s a simple process once you know how, but to get to this point, I spent a fair few hours playing and testing, so hopefully you can forgo all of that and skip to the good part!
You can read more about what Photon OS, Docker and Containers are in my previous post, so lets get started.
First of all we need to download PhotonOS using the link below. Here we’re looking to use v2.0. This can all be run from your desktop. I recommend 4GB ram, 4CPU and selecting NAT when you import the OVA into VMware Workstation for PC or Fusion for Mac.
http://dl.bintray.com/vmware/photon/2.0/GA/ova/photon-custom-lsilogic-hw11-2.0-304b817.ova
Once downloaded, boot up the appliance to get you to the console.
Change root password
Login as root password changeme
Finding PhotonOS IP address
ip addr | grep eth0
Upgrade PhotonOS
We are going to download the latest PhotonOS components , enable Docker and reboot the VM
tdnf distro-sync systemctl enable docker
Create a new User
Change username to your username
useradd -m -U username passwd username usermod -aG docker username
Reboot
init 6
Logging in
From this stage onwards I highly recommend you ssh in from a client using the username above (putty or just SSH in using terminal on Mac) eg ssh username@appliancesip, as you can copy and paste the text below, something the console within Workstation or Fusion won’t allow.
Install Docker Compose
su - curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.22.0/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose chgrp docker /usr/local/bin/docker-compose exit
Create a wordpress template directory
This is a yaml directory to hold the wordpress build script
mkdir wordpress cd wordpress
Now create the wordpress script
vi docker-compose.yml
Pick 2 passwords, 1 for the wordpress db password and 1 for the mysql root password, use a password with no symbols around 15 chars long, removing the brackets. Once done exit out of vi as you normally would, committing the changes
version: '3.3' services: wordpress: depends_on: - db image: wordpress:latest volumes: - wordpress_files:/var/www/html ports: - "80:80" restart: always environment: WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306 WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: (wordpress_db_password) db: image: mysql:8 command: '--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password' volumes: - db_data:/var/lib/mysql restart: always environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: (mysql root password) MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress MYSQL_USER: wordpress MYSQL_PASSWORD: (wordpress db password) volumes: wordpress_files: db_data:
You will notice that the two final lines create local directories on your Photon instance to store your WordPress and SQL files, enabling them to survive the container creation and destruction process.
Start WordPress Container
The first time this runs it will pull down the lastest Official WordPress Container as well as the latest MySQL Container
docker-compose up -d
Launch a web browser and continue the wordpress installation
http://(ip address of PhotonOS)
And that’s you done! You should now have a version of WordPress running in a Docker container running on Photon OS. Additional actions that you can do are:
Shutting down WordPress Container
docker-compose down
Upgrading WordPress Container to latest versions
docker-compose down docker-compose pull docker-compose up -d
Remove all WordPress Data
BE WARNED THIS WILL REMOVE ALL THE WORDPRESS AND MYSQL DATA VOLUMES
docker-compose down –volumes
Please note that due to the nature of containers, everything within the container will be destroyed when you shut this down which is why the data is held in volumes outside the container.
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