Docker Compose setup for a Wordpress blog using the official wordpress Docker image, compatible with macOS on Apple Silicon ARM. Full guide can be found here ➝ https://swissmacuser.ch/mamp-to-docker-mac-how-to-migrate/

.env

COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME="myblog"
OS_PLATFORM="linux/x86_64"
HTTP_PORT="80"
HTTPS_PORT="443"
WP_LOCALHOST="wordpress"
WP_HOST_WEBFILES="./public"
WP_HOST_DATABASEFILES="./mariadb"
WP_WEBROOT="/var/www/html"
WP_DB_NAME="wordpress"
WP_DB_USER="root"
WP_DB_PASSWORD=""
MYSQL_TYPE="mariadb"
MYSQL_VERSION="latest"
MYSQL_PORT="3306"
PHPMYADMIN_LOCALHOST="phpmyadmin"
PHPMYADMIN_PORT="8080"

docker-compose.yml

# The Docker services to run
services:
    # A webserver with Wordpress pre-installed
    wordpress:
        platform: ${OS_PLATFORM}
        image: wordpress
        container_name: ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-wordpress
        restart: unless-stopped
        environment:
            - WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=db
            - WORDPRESS_DB_NAME=${WP_DB_NAME}
            - WORDPRESS_DB_USER=${WP_DB_USER}
            - WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=${WP_DB_PASSWORD}
        hostname: wordpress
        domainname: ${WP_LOCALHOST}
        ports:
            - ${HTTP_PORT}:80
            # HTTPS requires nginx service with TLS/SSL Certificates:
            #- ${HTTPS_PORT}:443
        expose:
            - ${HTTP_PORT}
            #- ${HTTPS_PORT}
        volumes:
            - ${WP_HOST_WEBFILES}:${WP_WEBROOT}
            # Or with docker-sync:
            # - wordpress-webfiles:${WP_WEBROOT}:nocopy

    # A MySQL-type database (default: MariaDB)
    db:
        platform: ${OS_PLATFORM}
        image: ${MYSQL_TYPE}:${MYSQL_VERSION}
        container_name: ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-db
        restart: unless-stopped
        hostname: database
        environment:
            - MARIADB_ALLOW_EMPTY_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes
            - MARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=${WP_DB_PASSWORD}
            - MARIADB_DATABASE=${WP_DB_NAME}
            # Only required if NOT "root" is used:
            #- MARIADB_USER=${WP_DB_USER}
            #- MARIADB_PASSWORD=${WP_DB_PASSWORD}
            # in some scenarios the following solves Host IP connection issues
            #- MARIADB_ROOT_HOST="%"
        user: mysql
        ports:
            - ${MYSQL_PORT}:3306
        expose:
            - ${MYSQL_PORT}
        healthcheck:
            test: mysql ${WP_DB_NAME} --user=${WP_DB_USER} --password='${WP_DB_PASSWORD}' --silent --execute "SELECT 1;"
            interval: 10s
            timeout: 3s
            retries: 5
        command: [mysqld, --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password, --character-set-server=utf8mb4, --collation-server=utf8mb4_unicode_ci, --innodb_monitor_enable=all, --max-connections=1001, --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp, --ignore-db-dir=lost+found, --default-storage-engine=Aria]
        volumes:
            - ${WP_HOST_DATABASEFILES}:/var/lib/mysql
            # Or with docker-sync:
            #- wordpress-database:${MYSQL_DATABASE_PATH}:nocopy

    # A Database Management-tool (default: PhpMyAdmin)
    db-manager:
        image: phpmyadmin:latest
        container_name: ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}-phpmyadmin
        hostname: phpmyadmin
        domainname: ${PHPMYADMIN_LOCALHOST}
        restart: unless-stopped
        depends_on:
            db:
                condition: service_healthy
        environment:
            - PMA_ARBITRARY=1
            # phpMyAdmin connects by default using the MySQL credentials env. Otherwise enable these:
            #- PMA_HOST=database
            #- MYSQL_USER={WP_DB_USER}
            #- MYSQL_PASSWORD=${WP_DB_PASSWORD}
        ports:
            - ${PHPMYADMIN_PORT}:80
        expose:
            - ${PHPMYADMIN_PORT}

# When using docker-sync use the following named volumes:
#volumes:
    #wordpress-webfiles:
    #    external: true
    #wordpress-database:
    #    external: true

docker-sync.yml

version: "2"

options:
    compose-file-path: "./docker-compose.yml" # Adjust if docker-compose YAML is somewhere else / different name
    verbose: true

syncs:
    # sync_strategy: see https://docker-sync.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started/configuration.html#sync-strategy
    wordpress-webfiles:
        src: "${WP_HOST_WEBFILES}"
        sync_strategy: "native_osx" # Fast enough for web files
        sync_excludes: [ ]
    wordpress-database:
        src: "${WP_HOST_DATABASEFILES}"
        sync_strategy: "unison" # Performance boost for database storage

hosts

127.0.0.1	wordpress
127.0.0.1	phpmyadmin

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