Docker

Shiny New Releases

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2022

Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro

Post Status Excerpt (No. 57) — WordPress Development with Docker and Lando

David Bisset

May 4, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Cal Evans explains the basics of Docker and Lando — as well as the advantages of using them. Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications.

Ian Jenkins shares some details on…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Ian Jenkins shares some details on how Box UK develops enterprise WordPress sites. Ian starts with Docker, Monorepo, and Dictator. They also use Twig as their templating engine. How they install plugins is interesting: “Our preferred setup is that a…

Gary Pendergast announced a “baby step”…

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2019

Hosting

Gary Pendergast announced a "baby step" toward a better contributor experience in WordPress Core. Custom Docker images are now available for running WordPress on PHP versions 5.2 to 7.3. These images aren’t intended for hosting Docker-based WordPress sites but instead…

Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Hosting

Everyone's Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up blog the release of WP Docker, an open source Docker configuration optimized for local WordPress development. WP Docker is meant to address shortcomings of running multiple VVV and Vagrant instances while providing greater flexibility…

Tate Barber has written how to…

David Bisset

August 10, 2016

Tate Barber has written how to get Docker setup in, "three easy steps." As its kinks have been worked out, more developers are showing interest in it. But I'm not prepared to called the process Tate outlines as "easy" quite…

GitLab has been making some interesting…

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2016

GitLab has been making some interesting improvements recently (and after Github's recent pricing announcements, I'm sure they are getting more people paying attention to them). They recently announced GitLab Container Registries which allow you to test and deploy Docker containers…

If you’re a developer and wanted…

Brian Krogsgard

May 10, 2016

If you're a developer and wanted to get into Docker, this post on Codeable goes deep into what it is and how you can get started with it. I've been looking for a really in-depth Docker post that's WordPress specific, and…

This is a really cool project:…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

This is a really cool project: 10up has partnered with Joyent to bring WordPress to their Docker infrastructure. 10up created a Docker Compose project, housing several Docker containers which work together to create a scalable, complete WordPress stack, which includes…

Docker For Mac beta has been…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Docker For Mac beta has been released (limited release actually) and there's a great review of it. Docker has a lot of promise, and many barriers have been removed with the new app, and the ease of use (and time saved) is…

WPDocker’s aim is SaaSified WordPress deployment via…

February 9, 2016

WPDocker's aim is SaaSified WordPress deployment via Docker, from former CyberChimps (maintainer of the popular Responsive theme) owner Trent Lapinski. Trent says the future of WordPress is containers, which is a reasonable position for someone with a service for providing Docker…

Gilbert Pellegrom compares local development with…

January 18, 2016

Gilbert Pellegrom compares local development with Vagrant versus Docker. He concludes that while Docker is interesting, Vagrant is a bit easier to get going, and I quite agree. There are also more mature and well developed tools for WordPress with…

Docker adoption is up five times…

November 4, 2015

Docker adoption is up five times over in the last year, and the surge is being lead by big companies. This was the trend I suspected, but this survey of 7,000 organizations confirms it.

Use Vagrant. No, use Docker. No,…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2015

Use Vagrant. No, use Docker. No, Docker requires Vagrant for most people. No, Otto is the new Vagrant that uses Vagrant and does what Docker does but is less complicated. Sounds complicated. Call me when you get it figured out.