This will give us access to all the latest syntax goodies and techniques. We will use Dockers latest which right now is 3.9. This is going to be the main configuration file that hold all of the services and containers we will need for our WordPress site to run. docker-compose.ymlĬreate a project folder and in that folder create a file named docker-compose.yml or docker-compose.yaml. Follow the download instructions and open Docker. Just go to Docker Desktop, choose your operating system and download Docker Desktop. We will also be installing phpMyAdmin to interface with the database. The Docker Hub offical WordPress image comes with PHP and Apache, so we will not need to worry about that. To run WordPress we currently need PHP 7.4 or higher and MySQL 5.7 or higher and Apache or Nginx. Then we can spin up and manage all of them as a whole to create our local dev environment. With Docker and Docker Compose we can specify what services or containers our WordPress site will need. This keeps you from having to write a ton of commands with the CLI and makes it easier to work with multiple containers. The purpose of docker-compose is to function as the Docker CLI but to issue multiple commands much more quickly.

This will setup your local project environments on Docker. This works by creating a docker-compose.yml file in your project that you run from the terminal using docker compose up. What is Docker Compose?ĭocker has a Docker Compose tool that comes with Docker Desktop. The beauty of this, is that we can then share this configuration with any machine running Docker and our developments will install and run in exactly on each developers computer. Unlike virtual machines, Docker uses containers that are light weight and faster to spin up and down. Why Use Docker?ĭocker allows us to run all the code, dependences and even operating systems, self contained into individual units, completely separate from the machine that it is running on. Now I want to go a little deeper and setup WordPress on Docker with out relying on Docksal. Recently I made and article on how to use Docksal with Docker to build a WordPress site.

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