AKS - Kubernetes Wordpress Server

Project Overview:

A Kubernetes cluster running a content management site, with a web front-end (Wordpress) running on one of the containers and a SQL database/back-end running on another. To deploy, please reference deployment.md

Data Flow Diagram:

Architecture Diagram:

Services Being Used:

• Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) - hypervisor and container instances

Adherence to Azure's Well Architected Framework:

• Reliability:
  • Auto-scaling and load-balancing if usage exceeds a certain threshold
• Security:
  • SSH and other non-used ports closed for outside traffic, secrets generation for SQL server
• Cost Optimization:
  • Standard B1s VMs, Basic 'free' tier Kubernetes, auto-scaling, and limited node pools to minimize cost
• Operational Excellence:
  • Auto-scaling, load-balancing, and deployment can be automated through provided methods
• Performance Efficiency:
  • Auto-scaling, load-balancing, and appropriate VM sku for the provided outcomes

Future Revisions:

• Add additional content to the webpage itself, because it is currently very bare bones. Not that I know what to put on it, but that's beside the point.
• Deploy a website of my own onto the service rather than go through Wordpress.

(Written for ST:Cloud Computing - Indiana Tech IS4990)