charts/wordpress

WordPress

WordPress is one of the most versatile open source content management systems on the market. A publishing platform for building blogs and websites.

Based on the Bitnami WordPress image for docker, this Chart bootstraps a WordPress deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm.

Dependencies

The WordPress Chart requires the Bitnami MariaDB Chart for setting up a database backend.

Please refer to the README of the Bitnami MariaDB Chart for deployment instructions.

Persistence

You may skip this section if your only interested in testing the WordPress Chart and have not yet made the decision to use it for your production workloads.

For persistence of the WordPress configuration and user file uploads, mount a storage volume at the /bitnami/wordpress path of the WordPress pod.

By default the WordPress Chart mounts an emptyDir volume.

Configuration

To edit the default WordPress configuration, run

$ helmc edit wordpress

Here you can update the WordPress admin username, password and email address in tpl/values.toml. When not specified, the default values are used.

Refer to the Environment variables section of the Bitnami WordPress image for the default values.

The values of wordpressUser and wordpressPassword are the login credentials when you access the WordPress instance.

Finally, generate the chart to apply your changes to the configuration.

$ helmc generate --force wordpress

Access your WordPress application

You should now be able to access the application using the external IP configured for the WordPress service.

Note:

On GKE, the service will automatically configure a firewall rule so that the WordPress instance is accessible from the internet, for which you will be charged additionally.

On other cloud platforms you may have to setup a firewall rule manually. Please refer your cloud providers documentation.

Get the external IP address of your WordPress instance using:

$ kubectl get services wordpress
NAME      CLUSTER_IP      EXTERNAL_IP       PORT(S)         SELECTOR      AGE
wordpress    10.63.246.116   146.148.20.117    80/TCP,443/TCP  app=wordpress    15m

Access your WordPress deployment using the IP address listed under the EXTERNAL_IP column.

The default credentials are:

• Username: user
• Password: bitnami

Cleanup

To delete the WordPress deployment completely:

$ helmc uninstall -n default wordpress

Additionally you may want to Cleanup the MariaDB Chart