Deploying WordPress using Kubernetes and integrating it with the database by using Amazon RDS Service

- Amazon RDS Service?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

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Task Description :

Deploy the WordPress application on Kubernetes and AWS using terraform including the following steps;

1. Write an Infrastructure as code using Terraform, which automatically deploy the WordPress application

2. On AWS, use RDS service for the relational database for WordPress application.

3. Deploy WordPress as a container either on top of Minikube or EKS or Fargate service on AWS

4. The WordPress application should be accessible from the public world if deployed on AWS or through workstation if deployed on Minikube.

Pre-Requisites :

-> Should have an AWS account

->minikube and Kubernetes must be installed and configured

-> Terraform should be installed and configured in your system

Let's Start the Process :

Step 1

aws configure --profile profile_name

Step 2

Create a file minikube.tf file to launch WordPress on Kubernetes.

Step 3

In minikube.tf file, Use the Kubernetes provider:

provider "kubernetes" {

 config_context_cluster = "minikube"

}

Start the Minikube service by using a null resource:

resource "null_resource" "minikube" {


	provisioner "local-exec" {
        command = "minikube start"
	}

}

Step 4

resource "kubernetes_deployment" "wordpress" {
	metadata {
    	name = "wp"
    }
 
	spec {
	  replicas = 1
	  selector {
	  	match_labels = {
	    	env = "production"
		    region = "IN"
		    App = "wordpress"
	    }


		match_expressions {
	        key = "env"
		    operator = "In"
		    values = ["production" , "webserver"]
		}
      }
	template {
    	metadata {
        	labels = {
    			env = "production"
    			region = "IN"
    			App = "wordpress"
   			}
  		}


        spec {
        	container {
        		image = "wordpress:4.8-apache"
    			name = "wp" 
    		}
   		}
  	}
  }

}

Step 5

resource "kubernetes_service" "mywordpress" {
	metadata {
  		name = "wordpress"
    }
 
    spec {
  		selector = {
   			App = "wordpress"
  	    }


	  	port {
		   	node_port   = 31010
		   	port = 80
		   	target_port = 80
	    }
  
  		type = "NodePort"
    }

}

Step 6

Create another file aws_db.tf to create a database for WordPress site.

For using AWS RDS service, we use AWS provider:

provider "aws" {
  region = "ap-south-1"
  profile = "Akshat"
}

In the aws_db.tf file use data to extract VPC so that we can use the security group of that VPC and configure some rules for it to access our database:

data "aws_vpc" "myvpc" {
  default = true

}


data "aws_subnet_ids" "mysubnet" {
  vpc_id = data.aws_vpc.myvpc.id

}

We use to change the rules of the security group present in that VPC by using aws_security_group resource and then assign the retrieved subnet ID for the database :

resource "aws_security_group" "default" {
  name        = "main_rds_sg"
  description = "Allow all inbound traffic"
  vpc_id      = data.aws_vpc.myvpc.id

  ingress {
    from_port   = 3306
    to_port     = 3306
    protocol    = "TCP"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }

  egress {
    from_port   = 0
    to_port     = 0
    protocol    = "-1"
    cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }

  tags = {
    Name = "wordpress-db"
  }

}

resource "aws_db_subnet_group" "default" {
  name       = "main_subnet_group"
  subnet_ids = data.aws_subnet_ids.mysubnet.ids

}

I used the 3306 port for inbound rules so that it can easily connect to the database, Then we launch the database using the aws_db_instance resource.

resource "aws_db_instance" "mydb" {
  allocated_storage      = "10"
  publicly_accessible    = true
  identifier             = "wordpress-db"
  engine                 = "mariadb"
  engine_version         = "10.4.8"
  instance_class         = "db.t2.micro"
  name                   = "mydatabase"
  username               = "Akshat"
  password               = "12345678"
  vpc_security_group_ids = [aws_security_group.default.id]
  db_subnet_group_name   = aws_db_subnet_group.default.id
  skip_final_snapshot    = true

}

I used the output to get the address of the database to be used as a host in the WordPress site:

output "ip" {
  value = aws_db_instance.mydb.address

  

}

Step 7

Use this command to download plugins

terraform init

Validate the command using this

terraform validate

then we create the resource by using the command:

terraform apply -auto-approv

after the infrastructure is created using the Minikube service list command to get the IP for a WordPress site:

Use the IP to open the WordPress site

Use the user name and password that we have given in the terraform file nd use the RDS database DNS name inside the Database Host column.

Follow all the steps I have mentioned and you can also launch Wordpress site on kubernetes with a database created by using AWS RDS Service