Self-hosting WordPress on Kubernetes, starting from the Compose file you already have

Session Category Wordpress Audience Intermediate

You can describe WordPress and its database in a Compose file in about five minutes. Getting that same stack onto a Kubernetes cluster usually means starting over: learn Helm, learn the packaging tooling, and rebuild by hand what you had already described once.

compose-bridge-uds shortens that path. It’s a Docker Compose Bridge template that reads your resolved Compose model and emits a Helm chart plus a package definition you can build and deploy. We’ll take a stock WordPress and MySQL Compose file and walk it all the way to a running deployment.

It lands on UDS Core, an open source platform bundle that supplies the pieces you would otherwise wire up yourself: ingress with TLS, single sign-on, network policy between services, and logging and monitoring on by default. So the converted WordPress package arrives somewhere authentication and traffic rules are already handled, instead of being the next three problems on your list.

About the Speaker

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Will Walker

Senior Platform Engineer at Defense Unicorns

Newark, DE

I’m a Senior Platform Engineer at Defense Unicorns, where I am building the developer platform for Project Blue. My work focuses on two things I love: modernizing legacy applications and building fast paths to production for new projects. I previously served as a Cyber Capabilities Developer in the U.S. Air Force, leading software development and delivery for USCYBERCOM. I specialize in Kubernetes-native application development, infrastructure as code, and creating the bridge between development teams and production environments.

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