WordPress Swarm Deployment

A Docker Swarm cluster deployment for running WordPress using DNS name-based discovery.

Features

• Five services running in a Docker Swarm cluster:
  • A WordPress instance with labels for Traefik to load-balance
  • A MariaDB database configured for Galera-based clustering using Swarm mode DNS for discovery
  • A Traefik proxying and load balancing container
  • A Redis instance for caching
  • An Nginx instance

Requirements

• Docker Engine 20.10.0 or later
• Docker Compose 1.29.0 or later
• Docker Swarm mode enabled

Deployment

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wordpress-swarm.git

2. cd wordpress-swarm

3. Deploy the WordPress stack:bash docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml wordpress


4. Access the WordPress site: Open your browser and visit http://wordpress.example.com. Replace wordpress.example.com with your actual domain name.

Scaling

To scale the WordPress service to 10 replicas, run the following command:

docker service scale wordpress_wordpress=10

Monitoring

Access the Traefik dashboard by visiting http://traefik.example.com. Replace traefik.example.com with your actual domain name.

Cleanup

To shut down and remove the WordPress stack, run the following command:

docker stack rm wordpress

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see the contribute.md file for more information.

Maintainers

• @thomasvincent(https://github.com/thomasvincent)

##License This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for more information.