WordPress Alpine Helm Chart

A production-ready WordPress Helm chart running on Alpine Linux, using:

• WordPress FPM
• Nginx
• Init container (WP-CLI)
• MariaDB
• Optional Memcached
• Optional Ingress (Traefik compatible)

📦 Helm repo:
https://wp.charts.hessel.cloud

🚀 Quick Start

Add the Helm Repository

helm repo add wp-alpine https://wp.charts.hessel.cloud
helm repo update
helm install my-wordpress wp-alpine/wordpress-alpine

🧠 Architecture

This chart deploys:

• WordPress PHP-FPM (Alpine)
• Nginx as frontend
• Init container using WP-CLI (WordPress setup & config)
• MariaDB (Alpine)
• Optional Memcached (via dependency)
• Persistent volumes for:
  • WordPress files
  • Database data

🐳 Container Images

Component	Image
WordPress FPM	ghcr.io/shesselink81/wordpress-alpine:v6.9.0.9
Nginx	ghcr.io/shesselink81/nginx-alpine:v6.9.0.9
Init (WP-CLI)	wordpress:cli-php8.3
Database	mariadb:12.1.2

⚙️ Configuration

All configuration is done via values.yaml

WordPress Settings

env:
  wp:
    scheme: https
    domainname: wordpress.local
    url: "${scheme}://${domainname}"
    version: "6.9.0"
    locale: en_US
    title: "My WordPress Site"
    admin_user: admin
    admin_password: admin
    debug: "false"

wordpress:
  init:
    enabled: true
  resources:
    requests:
       memory: "128Mi"
       cpu: "50m"
    limits:
       memory: "512Mi"
       cpu: "300m"

persistence:
  wordpress:
    enabled: true
    size: 1Gi
    existingClaim: ""
    keep: true

mariadb:
  enabled: true
  auth:
    enabled: true
    rootPassword: "rootpassword"
    database: "wordpress"
    username: "wordpress"
    password: "wordpress"
    existingSecret: ""
    allowEmptyRootPassword: "false"
    secretKeys:
      rootPasswordKey: mariadb-root-password
      userPasswordKey: mariadb-password
  persistence:
    enabled: true
    storageClass: ""
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteOnce
    size: 1Gi
  resources:
    requests:
       memory: "128Mi"
       cpu: "20m"
    limits:
       memory: "256Mi"
       cpu: "300m"

nginx:
  resources:
    requests:
       memory: "32Mi"
       cpu: "10m"
    limits:
       memory: "64Mi"
       cpu: "150m"
  service:
    port: 80

ingress:
  enabled: true
  className: "traefik"
  annotations: {}
  hosts:
    - host: wordpress.local
      paths:
        - path: /
          pathType: ImplementationSpecific
  tls: []
  useHttpsBackend: false
  extraRules: []

memcached:
  enabled: true
  createConfig: true
  nameOverride: ""
  fullnameOverride: ""
  resources:
    requests:
       memory: "15Mi"
       cpu: "5m"
    limits:
       memory: "45Mi"
       cpu: "50m"