Setting up WordPress with Kubernetes clusters

In this recipe, we will use the WordPress example given in the Kubernetes documentation (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/stateful-application/mysql-wordpress-persistent-volume/). There are three parts to this example: creating a secret, deploying MySQL, and deploying WordPress.

Getting ready

Follow these prerequisites:

• Make sure that the Kubernetes cluster has been set up, as described in the previous recipe.
• There are two pod files that we need to download. You can find them here:
  • https://kubernetes.io/examples/application/wordpress/mysql-deployment.yaml
  • https://kubernetes.io/examples/application/wordpress/wordpress-deployment.yaml
• These YAML files describe pods and services...