recently migrated wordpress to GCP, using cloud launcher – wordpress by bitnami.  That pretty easy, google other tutorials and follow it. e.g.

• https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher/details/bitnami-launchpad/wordpress
• http://www.compoundtheory.com/migrating-my-blog-to-google-cloud-platform/

 

Set up

here is some highlighted procedures

1. create compute engine via clound launcher

2. create cloud SQL
– db username and password

3. mysqldump old wordpress database

4. load into cloud SQL

5. change wordpress setting.
$ cd apps/wordpress/htdocs/

6. turn off mysql in bitnami image

7. turn off banner

8. setup static IP for compute engine instance & cloud SQL
in cloud SQL, allow CE’s IP

9. change DNS, point to GCP

Issues

outgoing email

a bit weird, quite trouble to setup mailjet https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail/using-mailjet

followed the instructions, yet those postfix setup, from fields is <username>@<hostname>, which MailJet will send a verification email to, and apparently it won’t be verified.
https://app.mailjet.com/account/sender

additional steps to modified the email address, so it passes the verification.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-masquerade-change-email-mail-address.html

Then, setup wordpress plug-in

https://docs.bitnami.com/google/apps/wordpress/#how-to-configure-outbound-email-settings

php-fpm CPU loading

unknown reason on high CPU usage. To restart php-fpm, or the HTTP server.