Here are some notes on how I used LXD to run a container for WordPress. This is (a lot) more convenient than using Docker, which was my original approach to getting my WordPress site into a container. The main advantage for me is that a single container runs all the components together – no need for the ‘wiring’ between containers for each process.
There is a bash script that automates this at https://github.com/Kevin-Sangeelee/lxd-wordpress, and is a more complete description of the process since it automatically configures SSL/TLS and Exim.
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