Using Docker for Local WordPress Development

At the end of 2017, I faced the decision to either upgrade my MacBook or invest in Windows machine. With that came the challenge to develop WordPress sites on two varying platforms, Mac OS and Windows.. After you started the app, you'll see that Windows at the bottom or Mac's at the top now shows the Docker icon. Step #2 Sign in to Docker Cloud using your Username and Password.. We need to tell Docker which hard drives it's allowed to access in it's containers, so that we can work on local files just as we're used to and have the changes we make reflect in the containers... The task is to talk to the kernel, build and manage your containers and create the system calls to make..  Linux users will first have to install Docker and then head over to this page to grab the installation instructions for docker-compose https docs docker com compose install. By misconfigurations of those services, It can be quite painful and time-consuming to manage just those two services across OS, to keep the environment, staging area and area in sync, or to troubleshoot errors in WP that are caused.. place the docker-compose yml from my repo in the folder of the existing site.. You'll be able to import the WP database and adjust the wp-config php file to match the database config from docker-compose yml ..  Read more