To follow this tutorial, you will need the following:
- One Debian 10 server set up by following the Debian 10 initial server setup guide, including a sudo non-root user and a firewall.
- An account on Docker Hub if you wish to create your own images and push them to Docker Hub, as shown in Steps 7 and 8.
Step 1 — Installing Docker
The Docker installation package available in the official Debian repository may not be the latest version. To ensure we get the latest version, we’ll install Docker from the official Docker repository. To do that, we’ll add a new package source, add the GPG key from Docker to ensure the downloads are valid, and then install the package.
First, update your existing list of packages:
How To Install WordPress With Docker Compose
WordPress is a free and open-source Content Management System (CMS) built on a MySQL database with PHP processing. Thanks to its extensible plugin architecture and templating system, and the fact that most of its administration can be done through the web interface, WordPress is a popular choice when creating different types of websites, from blogs to product pages to eCommerce sites.
Running WordPress typically involves installing a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) or LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP) stack, which can be time-consuming. However, by using tools like Docker and Docker Compose, you can simplify the process of setting up your preferred stack and installing WordPress. Instead of installing individual components by hand, you can use images, which standardize things like libraries, configuration files, and environment variables, and run these images in containers, isolated processes that run on a shared operating system. Additionally, by using Compose, you can coordinate multiple containers — for example, an application and database — to communicate with one another.