🐳 Inception

Inception is a project from the 42 School that aims to broaden your knowledge of system administration by using Docker.

📚 Table of Contents

• 📚 Table of Contents
• 📣 Introduction
• 📦 Installation
• 📝 Usage
• 🌐 Links
• 📎 References

📣 Introduction

The goal of the project is to containerize a simple web application infrastructure using Docker Compose.

The project involves setting up three mandatory containers - a MariaDB database, an NGINX web server, and a WordPress instance. On top of the core infrastructure, I implemented several optional bonus services as an additional challenge:

• Redis - Caching service for WordPress to improve performance
• FTP Server - To enable file transfers to the WordPress container
• Static Website - A simple HTML/CSS site running behind a NodeJS container
• Adminer - Database management tool for MariaDB
• Uptime Kuma - Container monitoring solution to track services

By completing this project, I learned how to architect a production-like environment using Docker networking and persist data in volumes. The bonus services also allowed me to dig deeper into configuring real-world web applications.

Overall, Inception gave me valuable hands-on experience in understanding core Docker concepts that I will be able to apply in future projects and roles as a software engineer.

📦 Installation

Warning

Before running the project, you must configure your hosts redirection inside /etc/hosts. Here you will find what to configure.

127.0.0.1   bsoubaig.42.fr
127.0.0.1   status.bsoubaig.42.fr
127.0.0.1   static.bsoubaig.42.fr

Content of /etc/hosts

Clone the repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/okbrandon/inception.git

Build and run the Inception project containers:

make all

Note

This command will build the containers with docker-compose and run them.

📝 Usage

Display each containers status:

make status

Stop the running containers:

make stop

Purge and clean the containers:

make clean

🌐 Links

Here is the accessible links for the Inception project.

Wordpress	https://bsoubaig.42.fr/
Adminer	https://bsoubaig.42.fr/adminer
Uptime-Kuma	https://status.bsoubaig.42.fr/
Static website	https://static.bsoubaig.42.fr/

📎 References

• Docker compose overview
• WP-CLI
• php-fpm configuration
• Adminer installation
• MySQL queries

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