angelamcosta/inception

This document is a System Administration related exercise.

Inception

Inception is a a System Administration related exercise. This project involves setting up a small infrastructure composed of various services under specific rules. The entire project will be executed within a virtual machine, and I will be utilizing Docker Compose for the configuration. The subject of the project can be found here.

📜 Mandatory Features

• A Docker container that contains NGINX with TLSv1.2 or TLSv1.3 only.
• A Docker container that contains WordPress + php-fpm (it must be installed and configured) only without nginx.
• A Docker container that contains MariaDB only without nginx.
• A volume that contains your WordPress database.
• A second volume that contains your WordPress website files.
• A docker-network that establishes the connection between your containers.

Caution

The containers musn’t be started with a command running an infinite loop. Thus, this also applies to any command used as entrypoint, or used in entrypoint scripts. The following are a few prohibited hacky patches: tail -f, bash, sleep infinity, while true.

⭐ Additional Features

• Set up redis cache for your WordPress website in order to properly manage the cache.
• Set up a FTP server container pointing to the volume of your WordPress website.
• Create a simple static website in the language of your choice except PHP (Yes, PHP is excluded!). For example, a showcase site or a site for presenting your resume.
• Set up Adminer.
• Set up a service of your choice that you think is useful. During the defense, you will have to justify your choice.

Glossary

• Why can't MYSQL access the aria control file?

  2024-01-16 17:16:26 0 [ERROR] mysqld: Can't lock aria control file '/var/lib/mysql/aria_log_control' for exclusive use, error: 11. Will retry for 30 seconds
  2024-01-16 17:16:56 0 [ERROR] mysqld: Got error 'Could not get an exclusive lock; file is probably in use by another process' when trying to use aria control file '/var/lib/mysql/aria_log_control'
  

• Running the NGINX Server in a Docker Container