WordPress Helm Chart

This Helm chart allows you to deploy WordPress to your Kubernetes cluster using Helm and manage the deployment with ArgoCD.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Description

This Helm chart simplifies the deployment of WordPress to your Kubernetes cluster. It packages the WordPress application, including the necessary configurations, and allows you to set up the required environment variables, such as the MySQL database host, username, password, and database name.

Prerequisites

Before using this Helm chart, you should have the following:

• A running Kubernetes cluster
• Helm installed on your local machine
• ArgoCD installed and configured to manage deployments

Installation

ArgoCD Installation:

To install WordPress Helm chart using ArgoCD, follow these steps:

1. Clone this GitHub repository to your local machine.

2. Customize the values.yaml file to set the required configuration values, such as the MySQL database username, password, and database name.

3. Package the Helm chart using the following command:

helm package .

4. Upload the packaged chart (wordpress-<version>.tgz) to a Helm repository accessible to your Kubernetes cluster.

5. Deploy the WordPress application using ArgoCD with application manifest described in argocd/argocd-config.yaml file as follow:

sudo kubectl apply -n argocd -f argocd/argocd-config.yaml

Helm Installation:

add helm chart repository:

helm repo add wordpress-chart https://Majid-dev.github.io/wordpress-chart-argocd

To install the wordpress-chart chart:

helm install my-wordpress wordpress-chart/wordpress

or use the package you have made in previous section as following:

helm install my-wordpress wordpress-<version>.tgz

To uninstall the chart:

helm delete my-wordpress

Configuration

You can customize the WordPress deployment by modifying the values in the values.yaml file. The following are some of the configurable parameters:

Parameter	Description	Default
mysqlRootPassword	MySQL root password	rootpassword
mysqlDatabase	MySQL database name	wordpress
mysqlUser	MySQL username	wordpress
mysqlPassword	MySQL password	wordpresspassword

Usage

Once the WordPress application is deployed, access it using the NodePort or LoadBalancer IP associated with the WordPress service. You can forward localhost port to wordpress service to access wordpress via your machine:

kubectl port-forward service/wordpress 8080:80

After deploying, you can log in to the WordPress admin dashboard using the provided credentials.

Contributing

Contributions to this Helm chart are welcome! If you find any issues or have improvements to suggest, please open an issue or submit a pull request on the GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.