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Context

MediHealth, a rapidly growing healthcare startup, aims to provide a robust and scalable web platform for its users. To ensure high availability and reliability, MediHealth wants to deploy its website using WordPress, backed by a MySQL database. The deployment will include multiple WordPress instances across different availability zones to guarantee continuous access, even if one instance fails. A load balancer will be implemented to distribute traffic evenly across these instances, ensuring seamless user experience and optimal performance.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to provision and configure Kubernetes clusters for hosting applications.
• Learn how to deploy a WordPress application and configure it to connect to a MySQL database within a Kubernetes cluster.
• Set up and configure high availability with multiple WordPress instances.
• Configure a load balancer to distribute traffic across multiple WordPress instances.
• Manage application secrets securely using Kubernetes secrets.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud services.
• Familiarity with Linux command-line operations.
• Basic understanding of web server and database configurations.