Trying to dockerise wordpress I figure out this scenenario:
2 data volume containers, one for the database (bbdd) and another for wordpress files (wordpress):
sudo docker create -v /var/lib/mysql --name bbdd ubuntu:trusty /bin/true
sudo docker create -v /var/www/html --name wordpress ubuntu:trusty /bin/true
Then I need a container for mysql so I use the official mysql image from docker hub and also the volume /var/lib/mysql from the first data container:
docker run --volumes-from bbdd --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="xxxx" -d mysql:5.6
Then I need a container for apache/php so I use official wordpress image from docker hub and also the volume /var/lib/mysql from the first data container:
docker run --volumes-from wordpress --name apache --link mysql:mysql -d -p 8080:80 wordpress:4.1.2-apache
What I understand from docker docs is that if I don’t remove the data containers, I’ll have persistance.
However if I stop and delete running containers (apache and mysql) and recreate them again with last commands, data get lost:
docker run --volumes-from bbdd --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="xxxx" -d mysql:5.6
docker run --volumes-from wordpress --name apache --link mysql:mysql -d -p 8080:80 wordpress:4.1.2-apache
However if I create the containers without data containers, it seems to work as I expected:
docker run -v /home/juanda/project/mysql:/var/lib/mysql --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="juanda" -d mysql:5.6
docker run -v /home/juanda/project/wordpress:/var/www/html --name apache --link mysql:mysql -d -p 8080:80 wordpress:4.1.2-apache
You need to run the data container for once to make it persistent:
This is an old bug of Docker described here. You may be affected if your Docker version is old.
In a very simplified test case this appears to work as advertised and documented in Creating and mounting a Data Volume Container:
Note that I deleted the attached container to make sure the persistent data volume container’s data was left in tact.
The data volume container and it’s data would only disappear if you ran the following:
Note: the
-v
option to actually remove volumes.See (specifically the
-v/--volumes
option):For reference I am running:
Update: For a quick example (which you can use in production) of a Dockerized WordPress setup with full hosting support see: https://gist.github.com/prologic/b5525a50bb4d867d84a2
You can simply use
docker-compose
file as:SOURCE: https://github.com/MagePsycho/wordpress-dockerized