Month: September 2023

Welcome to part 2. Time to move the next steps, and complete the migration. By the time we are done, we will have:

• External facing NGINX container proxying to the internal WordPress instance.
• SSL certificate issuing and renewals with a companion container
• A WordPress container with your site migrated
• A MariaDB database container containing your migrated database

Enough talking, let’s get to work!

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Backing up MySql or mariaDB databases is a straight forward task. The task is similar in backing up a regular database located in a Linux server. We would issue the following command:

mysqldump -u {USER} -p{PASSWORD} {DATABASE} > {THE BACKUP FILE}

On a Linux server, the command would look something similar to: Continue reading “Backup MySql Databases Running in Containers”