Wordpress & Pod deployment

1. Create a Pod

First, create a new Pod to house both the WordPress and MariaDB containers.

$ podman pod create --name wordpress-pod -p 8080:80
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2. Deploy the MariaDB Container Inside the Pod

Run the MariaDB container inside the newly created Pod. This container will store WordPress data in the database.

podman run -d \
    --pod wordpress-pod \
    --name mariadb \
    -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=rootpassword \
    -e MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress \
    -e MYSQL_USER=wpuser \
    -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=wppassword \
    -v mariadb_data:/var/lib/mysql \
    mariadb:10.5

Here:

The --pod wordpress-pod flag ensures that the MariaDB container is attached to the Pod.
The container is running with environment variables to configure the database.
A volume mariadb_data is used to persist MariaDB data.

3. Deploy the WordPress Container Inside the Pod

podman run -d \
    --pod wordpress-pod \
    --name wordpress \
    -e WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 \
    -e WORDPRESS_DB_NAME=wordpress \
    -e WORDPRESS_DB_USER=wpuser \
    -e WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=wppassword \
    -v wordpress_data:/var/www/html \
    wordpress:latest

Here:

The --pod wordpress-pod flag attaches the WordPress container to the same Pod.
The WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 variable points to the local MariaDB instance inside the Pod (as both containers share the same network namespace).
The WordPress content is persisted with the volume wordpress_data.

4. Verify the Pod and Containers

To check if both containers are running in the Pod, you can use the following command:

$ podman ps --pod

This should show the Pod wordpress-pod and both containers (mariadb and wordpress) running inside it.

5. Access WordPress http://<your_server_ip>:8080

Open your web browser and navigate to http://192.168.30.10:8080. You should see the WordPress installation page, where you can complete the setup.

Press install

6. Use Ngrok to access

create Accout https://ngrok.com/ Login
Open Dashboard ngrok (https://dashboard.ngrok.com/)
Get token, copy it
Download ngrok to vm

wget https://bin.equinox.io/c/bNyj1mQVY4c/ngrok-v3-stable-linux-amd64.tgz
sudo tar xvzf ./ngrok-v3-stable-linux-amd64.tgz -C /usr/local/bin

ngrok authtoken NGROK_AUTHTOKEN

ngrok config add-authtoken 1yCmO03vEeCma1BCRaxxxxxxxxxxxxjs5NgRaKS2gttxDXBi1

change to you token

Create tunnel to app

Enter

copy https://a589-27-55-83-157.ngrok-free.app

7. Managing the Pod

Stop pod

podman pod stop wordpress-pod

Start the Pod

podman pod start wordpress-pod

Remove

podman pod rm -f wordpress-pod

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