Sample wordpress docker compose setup for local development

docker-compose.yml

version: '3'

services:
   db:
     image: mysql:5.7
     volumes:
       - site_db_data:/var/lib/mysql
     restart: always
     ports:
       # bind to host port so we can run mysql tools on host
       # you can remove this if you don't wish to do that
       - "3306:3306"
     environment:
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
       MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
       MYSQL_USER: wordpress
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

   wordpress:
     depends_on:
       - db
     image: wordpress:latest
     ports:
       - "8080:80"
     restart: always
     environment:
       WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
       WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
       WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
     volumes:
       # mount theme readonly, since we will edit on the host
       - ./wp-content/themes/your-theme:/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/your-theme:ro
       # mount plugins
       - ./wp-content/plugins:/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins
       # uploads: ymmv. Won't necessarily need this if working
       # on a greenfield wp site.
       - ./wp-content/uploads:/var/www/html/wp-content/uploads
       # this is a hack to *not* mount the ssl plugin for local dev
       # since it renders the whole site inaccessible unless https
       - ignore_ssl:/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/really-simple-ssl
       # local config file
       - ./wp-config-local.php:/var/www/wp-config-local.php
volumes:
  site_db_data:
  ignore_ssl: