How to run wp cli in docker-compose.yml

Well there are a couple of problems. The first one is that those two containers (wordpress and wordpress-cli) don't share a volume. So while wordpress has a wordpress installation ready, the wordpress-cli doesn't.

So you can add volumes to both containers, and then wordpress-cli will find the wordpress installation.

Then there's a second problem: the wordpress:latest and wordpress:cli images both run with the user www-data, but the problem is that the individual www-data users have different user-id's:

$ docker run --rm wordpress:latest grep www-data /etc/passwd 
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
$ docker run --rm wordpress:cli grep www-data /etc/passwd   
www-data:x:82:82:Linux User,,,:/home/www-data:/bin/false

It seems they aren't exactly compatible here. So if you use a shared volume you have to make sure they both use the same user-id. I solved this by having the wordpress:cli run with the user xfs which also has the user id 33.

The last problem is that your containers have dependencies on each other. Wordpress needs a running MySQL instance and the wordpress-cli needs also the MySQL and the Wordpress to be ready. To make sure MySQL is ready for the wordpress cli installation you either use something like "wait-for-it" or in a simple case you can just wait a couple of seconds and then try it.

I have tested all those changes and came up with the following docker-compose.yml. I have annotated all the changes I've made with "vstm":

version: "3.3"
services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
      MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
      MYSQL_USER: wordpress
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress

  wordpress:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: wordpress:latest
    ports:
      - 8000:80
    restart: always
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
      WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
      WORDPRESS_TABLE_PREFIX: "wp_"
      WORDPRESS_DEBUG: 1
    # vstm: add shared volume
    volumes:
      - wp_data:/var/www/html

  wordpress-cli:
    depends_on:
      - db
      - wordpress
    image: wordpress:cli
    # vstm: This is required to run wordpress-cli with the same
    # user-id as wordpress. This way there are no permission problems
    # when running the cli
    user: xfs
    # vstm: The sleep 10 is required so that the command is run after
    # mysql is initialized. Depending on your machine this might take
    # longer or it can go faster.
    command: >
      /bin/sh -c '
      sleep 10;
      wp core install --path="/var/www/html" --url="http://localhost:8000" --title="Local Wordpress By Docker" --admin_user=admin --admin_password=secret [email protected]
      '
    # vstm: add shared volume
    volumes:
      - wp_data:/var/www/html

volumes:
  db_data:
  # vstm: add shared volume
  wp_data:

It uses a docker-volume but you can also map it to a filesystem. Depends on how you plan to use your docker-compose.

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Actually, your question inspired me, and @vstm's answer guided me a bit.

You could try my piece of code:

1.wait-for-mysql.sh

#!/bin/bash -e

HOST=$(echo $WORDPRESS_DB_HOST | cut -d: -f1)
PORT=$(echo $WORDPRESS_DB_HOST | cut -d: -f2)

CMD=$@

until mysql -h $HOST -P $PORT -D $WORDPRESS_DB_NAME -u $WORDPRESS_DB_USER -p$WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD -e '\q'; do
  >&2 echo "Mysql is unavailable - sleeping..."
  sleep 2
done

>&2 echo "Mysql is up - executing command"
exec $CMD

2.compose.yml

version: '3.9'

services:

  wordpress:
    image: wordpress:5.7.0-php7.4-apache
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - ./wp-data/:/var/www/html/
    networks:
      wp-net: {}

  wp-cli:
    image: wordpress:cli-2.4.0-php7.4
    depends_on:
      - wordpress
    volumes:
      - ./wait-for-mysql.sh:/wait-for-mysql.sh
      - ./wp-data:/var/www/html/ # shared with wordpress service
    user: "33"
    command: >
      /wait-for-mysql.sh
      wp core install
      --path="/var/www/html"
      --url="http://your-url-here"
      --title=your-title-here
      --admin_user=your-user-here
      --admin_password=your-password-here
      --admin_email=your-email-here}
      --skip-email
    networks:
      wp-net: {}

networks:
  wp-net: {}

For your reference:

• https://docs.docker.com/compose/startup-order/
• https://gitlab.com/hino-hatake/wordpress

This one worked for me:

  wpcli:
    depends_on: 
      - mysql
      - wordpress
    image: wordpress:cli
    links:
      - mysql:db
    entrypoint: wp
    command: "--info"
    container_name: ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_wpcli
    volumes:
      - ${WORDPRESS_DATA_DIR:-./wordpress}:/var/www/html
    working_dir: /var/www/html

Note that in the line:

links:
  - mysql:db

mysql = name of my service db = alias name I gave it, can be anything

Then you issue run wp like so:

docker-compose run --rm wpcli WORDPRESS_COMMAND

Source: https://medium.com/@tatemz/using-wp-cli-with-docker-21b0ab9fab79