Good Migrations

My experiences of migrating Santa Ana Ltd WordPress estate to Docker

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1. Moving a WordPress site to Docker
   Mark Santa Ana
   @booyaa
   github.com/booyaa
   booyaa.org
   Good Migrations
   

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2. Who am I?
   ‣ Polyglot dev with Ops background
   ‣ Sysadmin for Santa Ana Ltd
   

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3. Our Setup
   PREVIOUS
   ‣ Virtual Private Server
   ‣ LAMP
   NEW
   ‣ Cloud Server
   ‣ Docker
   ‣ LEMP
   

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4. Docker
   source: https://www.docker.com/what-docker
   

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5. Why did we choose Docker?
   ‣ Secure
   

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6. Why did we choose Docker?
   ‣ Secure
   ‣ Reproducible
   

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7. Why did we choose Docker?
   ‣ Secure
   ‣ Reproducible
   ‣ Explicit
   

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8. Why did we choose Docker?
   ‣ Secure
   ‣ Reproducible
   ‣ Explicit
   ‣ Flexible
   

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9. Why did we choose Docker?
   ‣ Secure
   ‣ Reproducible
   ‣ Explicit
   ‣ Flexible
   ‣ Economical
   

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10. Why should you choose Docker?
    Democratises technology, just like WordPress
    

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11. Migration
    ‣ Backup
    ‣ Install/Setup Docker
    ‣ Restore
    

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12. TIL
    

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13. Permissions
    ‣ chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
    ‣ docker exec -it name_of_wordpress_container
    

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14. Mail
    ‣ Postman SMTP
    

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15. Security
    ‣ Goodbye fail2ban
    ‣ Hello Wordfence
    ‣ Hello 2FA
    

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16. Summary
    ‣ WordPress on Docker is easy
    ‣ It requires some technical expertise
    ‣ Moving to Docker could be easier (but there’s an app for that)
    

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17. santaana.co.uk
    

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19. Resources
    What is Docker 

    chown command

    

    WordPress permissions

    

    Fail2ban 

    Postman

    WordFence

    2FA

    

    Kitematic

    hyperironclad
    https://www.docker.com/what-docker

    http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-use-chmod-
    and-chown-command/

    http://www.chrisabernethy.com/why-wordpress-
    asks-connection-info/

    http://www.fail2ban.org/

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/postman-smtp/

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-
    authenticator/

    https://www.docker.com/products/docker-kitematic

    http://github.com/booyaa/hyperironclad
    

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