Introduction

In order to install a WordPress development environment on Docker, you'll need to install Docker and use docker-compose.

After adding those files, from your terminal, run the following command

docker-compose up -d

This will build a Docker container and image with the specified settings from the .yml file in the detached state.

You can see if the containers are running by typing

docker ps --all

You should see something like

CONTAINER ID    IMAGE                     COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                                   NAMES
353c53e7721b    nginx                     "nginx -g 'daemon of…"   8 seconds ago   Up 5 seconds   0.0.0.0:8010->80/tcp                    wp-docker-nginx
8cf9f52c0540    wordpress:5.1.1-fpm       "docker-entrypoint.s…"   9 seconds ago   Up 7 seconds   80/tcp, 9000/tcp                        wp-docker-app
e1f1d0799b40    mysql:5.7                 "docker-entrypoint.s…"   10 seconds ago  Up 8 seconds   33060/tcp, 0.0.0.0:33066->3306/tcp      wp-docker-db
352d5f6f64a9    phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin     "/run.sh supervisord…"   10 seconds ago  Up 8 seconds   9000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8181->80/tcp          wp-docker-phpmyadmin

Your project will be available on https://your.custom.url.test:8443.