A simplified yet refined Docker Compose workflow that sets up a LEMP network of containers for local WordPress development. If you'd like more interactive info, there's a video tutorial that walk you through setup and usage of this environment.

To get started, make sure you have Docker installed on your system, and then clone this repository.

Next, navigate in your terminal to the directory you cloned this, and spin up the containers for the web server by running docker-compose up -d --build site.

After that completes, follow the steps from the src/README.md file to get your WordPress installation added in (or create a new blank one).

Bringing up the Docker Compose network with site instead of just using up, ensures that only our site's containers are brought up at the start, instead of all of the command containers as well. The following are built for our web server, with their exposed ports detailed:

• nginx - :80
• mysql - :3306
• php - :9000

An additional container is included that lets you use the wp-cli app without having to install it on your local machine. Use the following command examples from your project root, modifying them to fit your particular use case.

• docker-compose run --rm wp user list

By default, whenever you bring down the Docker network, your MySQL data will be removed after the containers are destroyed. If you would like to have persistent data that remains after bringing containers down and back up, do the following:

1. Create a mysql folder in the project root, alongside the nginx and src folders.
2. Under the mysql service in your docker-compose.yml file, add the following lines:

volumes:
  - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql