wpaas

Wordpress as a Service (aka minipages). A fun little project for hosting a bunch of wordpress sites in a bunch of docker containers with sftp access and backups. Perfect if you need a bunch of easily-deployed low traffic WordPress instances without the overhead of VMs or mucking around with php and webservers. Proof of concept-ish and missing some bells and whistles.

Requirements

• Ansible (and the geerlingguy.docker role)
• Linux host (tested with Ubuntu 16.04) with working sendmail.
• A wildcard SSL cert for the fqdn of the host.
• A wildcard DNS name for subdomains/dns records for accessing instances.

How to use

This is a rough and rather brief HowTo for setting up your own minipages instances. Feel free to report any problems, questions or bugs on GitHub.

• Create an inventory with hostnames

[minipages]
your.host.tld

• Create a host_vars file specificing a root password for mysql installations, ssl-certs and the wordpress instances you want (see README in minipages role)
• Run the minipages.yml playbook Example: ansible-playbook -i <path_to_inventory> minipages.yml
• Go to https://<instance_name>.your.host.tld to start setting up your WordPress

How do I update?

Existing WordPress instances can be updated by running the regular WordPress update from the admin interface. If you want to update the underlying php container you can pull a newer version of the container and rerun the playbook. It should replace the existing container and reuse the existing WordPress installation and database. The same goes for MySQL. I have not tested this though.

Problems? Questions? Bugs?

This is a fun little weekend project and far from complete or perfect. Feel free to report any problems, questions or bugs on GitHub anyway, I promise I'll do my best to help.