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TABLE OF CONTENT<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1. Overview<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2. WordPress on Azure Kubernetes Service<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3. WordPress on AKS with Azure Database for MySQL<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4. WordPress on Webapp for containers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5. Final Verdict<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6. About CloudThat<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Overview:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Emerging Cloud Computing technologies are majorly developing advanced applications with modern technologies. Microsoft Azure is at the forefront and provides various cloud services like Azure VM, Azure Storage (blob, fileshare), Azure Function App, Azure Data Factory, and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the challenging things for a cloud architect is to make architecture decisions that are optimized, cost-effective and resilient. The goal is to make you aware of the parameters to consider while choosing the right decisions based on different approaches. We will discuss various options by looking at real-life examples of deploying a WordPress application on the Azure cloud, which will be highly available and scalable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Approach 1: Highly Available and Scalable WordPress on Azure Kubernetes Service<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Services to use:<\/h3>\n

Azure Kubernetes Service, a.k.a. AKS<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

Azure Kubernetes Service AKS:<\/h3>\n

AKS is managed Kubernetes service provided by Azure, where they manage the master node for Kubernetes by themselves, which offers benefits such as auto upgrades, self-healing, and patching. This reduces the time-sink for the developers to handle debugging. Other than that more like optimizing resource utilization and scaling massively at speed with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us talk about details on Kubernetes, which we can use to deploy our WordPress application.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deployments<\/h3>\n

A Deployment provides details that can update Pods and Replicasets declaratively. You describe the desired state and create a new replica set that removes all the existing configured resources and adopts a new one.<\/span><\/p>\n

ReplicaSet<\/h3>\n

Replicaset is used to maintain a stable set of Pods running at any time and assure the availability of the desired number of identical Pods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Service<\/h3>\n

A Service is a way to expose your pods to network service. It resolves the problem of modifying the mechanism for service discovery by giving their IP addresses and DNS name for the set of Pods with load balancing capability.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingress<\/h3>\n

An API object that helps you to manage access from the external world to services in the cluster such as HTTP, where it also provides features such as SSL termination, Path-based routing, and load balancing.<\/span><\/p>\n

In simple terms: It will help the service to expose via HTTP and HTTPS to the external world with rules that can be controlled for routing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Persistent Volumes<\/h3>\n

A Persistent Volume (PV) is a chunk of storage in a cluster that can be provisioned using storage classes such as node and pod as cluster resources. They are plugins like Volume with lifecycle, which pods use independently using PV. It can be implemented by capturing the configuration of NFS, iSCSI, or a cloud-provider-specific storage system<\/span><\/p>\n

A Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) is the request of storage by pod, just like Pod use node resources while PVCs use PV resources. Where Pods can have specific CPU and memory and claims can have the exact size and access modes such as ReadWriteOnce, ReadOnlyMany or ReadWriteMany.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a Beginners Guide to Kubernetes with real-time examples.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Storage options for applications in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)<\/h3>\n

Here we can use Persistent Volume and Persistent Volume Claims to manage our WordPress web data and MySQL data for our storage requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

With Azure, we can have two options for Storage Classes:<\/span><\/p>\n

Azure Disks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Can be created as Kubernetes DataDisk\u00a0resource where<\/span><\/p>\n