Storage

🎯 Goal

Build a complete PHP web application with MySQL database connectivity by manually provisioning Azure resources through the Azure Portal, then configuring the VM using cloud-init.

📋 Prerequisites

Before beginning this exercise, you should:

• Have an active Azure subscription
• Be familiar with the Azure Portal interface
• Understand basic networking concepts (VNets, subnets, NSGs)
• Have SSH key pair generated (ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096)
• Be comfortable with basic Linux commands and file operations

📚 Learning Objectives

By the end of this exercise, you will:

Introduction

In this tutorial, we’re going to guide you through the steps to display images stored in Azure Blob Storage on a PHP web application. This process involves setting up Blob Storage with public access, uploading images to it, and then configuring a PHP web application to retrieve and display these images.

Method

• We will utilize the Azure portal to configure a Blob Storage container, which is anonymously accessible.
• A PHP web application will be developed to serve our images.
• Within the web application, we will use the Azure SDK for PHP to fetch image URLs from Azure Blob Storage.
• The configurations, such as the connection string and container name, will be loaded via environment variables.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account. If you don’t have one, sign up at Azure’s official site.
• Basic familiarity with Azure services and PHP web development.
• Composer installed (PHP dependency manager)

Install Composer

On macOS:

Introduction

In this tutorial, we’ll deploy the PHP web application from Exercise 2 to an Azure Virtual Machine. This exercise builds on the previous one where we created a PHP app to display images from Azure Blob Storage. Now we’ll provision an Azure VM and deploy our application to make it accessible over the internet.

Prerequisites

• Completed Exercise 2 (PHP Blob Storage App)
• An Azure account with an active subscription
• Basic understanding of Linux and SSH
• Your PHP application code from Exercise 2

Step 1: Prepare Your Application for Deployment

First, ensure your PHP application is ready for deployment with proper environment configuration.