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Self-host WordPress with Docker ​

The world's most widely used content management system, self-hosted with its own database.

This page describes the Levelrail template for WordPress (Applications). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://wordpress.org/documentation/.

Recommended memory: about 512 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes ​

ServiceImageContainer portsVolumes
dbmysql:8.4none
wordpress_db_data -> /var/lib/mysql
wordpresswordpress:6.6-apache80
wordpress_data -> /var/www/html

Environment variables ​

ServiceVariableValue
dbMYSQL_DATABASEPreset in the template
dbMYSQL_PASSWORDGenerated at deploy
dbMYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORDGenerated at deploy
dbMYSQL_USERPreset in the template
wordpressWORDPRESS_DB_HOSTPreset in the template
wordpressWORDPRESS_DB_NAMEPreset in the template
wordpressWORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORDGenerated at deploy
wordpressWORDPRESS_DB_USERPreset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy WordPress with Levelrail ​

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select WordPress. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy wordpress --name my-wordpress

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

More Applications templates ​

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.

Released under the Apache 2.0 License.