Inception

This project aims to broaden your knowledge of system administration by using Docker. You will virtualize several Docker images, creating them in your new personal virtual machine.

Discription of mandatory part

This project consists in having you set up a small infrastructure composed of different services under specific rules.

Rules:

• This project need to be done on a Virtual Machine.
• All the files required for the configuration of your project must be placed in a srcs folder.
• A Makefile is also required and must be located at the root of your directory. It must set up your entire application (i.e., it has to build the Docker images using docker-compose.yml).
• Each Docker image must have the same name as its corresponding service.
• Each service has to run in a dedicated container.
• For performance matters, the containers must be built either from the penultimate stable version of Alpine Linux, or from Debian Buster.
• You also have to write your own Dockerfiles, one per service.
• The Dockerfiles must be called in your docker-compose.yml by your Makefile.
• No password must be present in your Dockerfiles.
• It means you have to build yourself the Docker images of your project. It is then forbidden to pull ready-made Docker images, as well as using services such as DockerHub (Alpine/Debian being excluded from this rule).
• Of course, using network: host or --link or links: is forbidden.
• Your 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.
• Your NGINX container must be the only entrypoint into your infrastructure via the port 443 only, using the TLSv1.2 or TLSv1.3 protocol.

Tasks:

• 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.
• Your containers have to restart in case of a crash.
• In your WordPress database, there must be two users, one of them being the administrator. The administrator’s username can’t contain admin/Admin or administrator/Administrator (e.g., admin, administrator, Administrator, admin-123, and so forth).
• Your volumes will be available in the /home/login/data folder of the host machine using Docker. Of course, you have to replace the login with yours.
• To make things simpler, you have to configure your domain name so it points to your local IP address. This domain name must be login.42.fr. Again, you have to use your own login. For example, if your login is wil, wil.42.fr will redirect to the IP address pointing to wil’s website.
• It is mandatory to use environment variables. Also, it is strongly recommended to use a .env file to store environment variables. The .env file should be located at the root of the srcs directory.

Discription of bonus part

The bonus part will only be assessed if the mandatory part is PERFECT. Perfect means the mandatory part has been integrally done and works without malfunctioning.

A Dockerfile must be written for each extra service. Thus, each one of them will run inside its own container and will have, if necessary, its dedicated volume.

Tasks:

• 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.

* You may open more ports to suit your needs.

Evaluated by moulinette