Hey-yo!

Folks, good evening from a small space inside the wonderful, and beautiful archipelago (you’ve got to see some of the places here, not just off photos or videos, okay folks?) of forested hills, mountains, and a myriad of islands: the Republic of the Philippines.

A land of good cheer, hope drawn from grounded optimism, and resilience through our shared faith in the Almighty God.

How do you do, my dear brothers and sisters? How’s it going?

Hmm.

You know what?

Tonight, my night-time slumber was abruptly interrupted – with me needing to go to the bathroom – to take a leak.

After this, I scrolled a little off my telephone. And found myself already wide-awake from the stimulus of the bright screen, and whatnot. Then, I decided to get up from bed. And start my computer to do some learning. And, well since we need work, hopefully soon, at the side, to continue hunting for a job, online.

Folks, kindly include me in your prayers. I need to find and land a job.

Alright.

My dear friends, our Day 18 task briefing is the following:

xFusionCorp Industries is planning to host a WordPress website on their infra in Stratos Datacenter. They have already done infrastructure configuration—for example, on the storage server they already have a shared directory /vaw/www/html that is mounted on each app host under /var/www/html directory. Please perform the following steps to accomplish the task:

a. Install httpd, php and its dependencies on all app hosts.

b. Apache should serve on port 8084 within the apps.

c. Install/Configure MariaDB server on DB Server.

d. Create a database named kodekloud_db2 and create a database user named kodekloud_aim identified as password LQfKeWWxWD. Further make sure this newly created user is able to perform all operation on the database you created.

e. Finally you should be able to access the website on LBR link, by clicking on the App button on the top bar. You should see a message like App is able to connect to the database using user kodekloud_aim

Folks, details encapsulated within this task briefing may change over some time. Especially, as I also need to re-open this task later on, when the virtual machine that our lab exercise runs on shuts-down.

Okay.

Let’s get started.

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My friends – apologies – for now, I’m going to go back to sleep. For the night. I still need some more sleep.

If and when I wake up next morning, I’ll return to this task of our’s. Okay?

God bless.

Peace be with you all, my dear friends in Christ.

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Folks, it’s lunch time over here.

Me logged into a computer terminal. Contemplating if I should defer this activity of ours’, our Day 18 of 100 Days of DevOps, for tomorrow instead?

Sorry.

There’s a few more learning tasks I need to set aside some time for. It’s my fault. I didn’t spend enough time on this one earlier in the morning.

In addition, I may have slept through my alarm ringing.

Folks, like you – I’m also doing what I can, with what I still have going.

And this entails, we devote our time to learning and study. Now, when it comes to the nitty details – we also need to block off spaces of time for topic areas we’d like to learn.

Okay, my friends? I’m more like a college student nowadays, with me unemployed.

It’s okay. Things will look up – in God’s time.

For now, we need to remain faithful. At least, we do our best as ever-striving servants, disciples of Christ, our Lord.

Peace be with you all, my dear brothers and sisters.

Pray for me, my friends. Let us keep praying and let us keep trying.

Salamat.

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