How to install Wordpress updates on Google Container Engine?

Question

I recently setup a Wordpress site hosted on Container Engine, following these instructions . Now I'm connected to wordpress wp-admin page and trying to update the latest Wordpress version updates. So I click on Dashboard->Updates->Update Now which results in this error:

Unpacking the update…

The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file permissions.: wp-admin/includes/update-core.php

Installation Failed

I'm new to kubernetes, and can't seem to find how I can connect to the running wordpress container via the gcloud console, and look at wordpress files and see if there are any permission issues to fix there. Help?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about the permissions issues, but you can debug using kubectl exec .

If you have a pod named wordpress-abcde , you should be able to run kubectl exec wordpress-abcde -i -t sh to open up a shell in in the (only) container in that pod. Here's the docs for kubectl exec .