A guide to deploying WordPress on Red Hat Hardened Images and image mode for RHEL, replacing the traditional sprawling LAMP stack with a minimal, reproducible, and immutable deployment. The approach reduces CVE noise by shrinking the attack surface to only required packages, eliminates environment drift by treating the OS as an immutable artifact, and uses Podman Quadlets for systemd-based container service management. The tutorial covers downloading WordPress, configuring wp-config.php with runtime-injected secrets, setting correct file permissions for PHP-FPM, and packaging everything into a bootable disk image with bootc-image-builder. The result is a self-hosted WordPress stack that is reproducible from source, consistent across dev/staging/production, and updated via image releases rather than manual patching.
