As a developer probably you may have heard before about WordPress is a free and open-source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. I was planning to install it using Docker for a containerized development environment, so I did researches and found a method to do it, but as I am using the recent Apple Macbook with an arm-based processor I found that due to lack of ARM support for MySQL I didn't find some developer-friendly method to get it started. So why not create one?!

If you want a quick start 🏃🏻‍♂️ you can access my WordPress + Docker repository to check it out!

Advantages

I decided to create something that makes it easier to start and use for your development environment with will also benefit you during production. The docker-compose.yml file has these advantages:

☝️ 1 command to start

🖥 Ready for production and local development

⚡ Performance Optimized

🍎 Works anywhere (Includes support for Apple Silicon Macs)

📚 Ease of development and managing different versions

Stack

• WordPress (Latest version)
• MySQL (Latest Version)
• Docker

How start using locally?

In your local environment you need to have installed:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

After cloning this repository, you can access the dev folder to be able to run the local dev environment using this command below.

git clone https://github.com/raihanameen/universal-wordpress.git
cd universal-wordpress
docker-compose up -d

🎉 That's It! Now go to localhost/8080 to access the WordPress panel and get started with your projects.

Conclusion

Working in a Containerized Environment is an efficient way of developing applications, as it is completely isolated so that we can develop without worrying about breaking anything or having any system-specific issues which actually helps in developing larger applications that have a large team. So now no more "But It works on my machine"😂

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