Shared Application Configuration with Azure Files

Your company, Store All The Things!, offers customers the ability to store any object. They are in the process of rolling out a new, multi-server infrastructure for their website. This website uses Nginx as its web server with a custom configuration file. This file is intended to be the same on all servers, and maintaining the configuration manually across multiple servers may be difficult and error-prone.

Luckily, you can use an Azure File share to keep the configuration in a central location (Azure). By mounting the file share to all of the web servers, you can ensure that any changes to this shared configuration can be easily rolled out to all servers. Create a file share to store the configuration file, mount it to both web servers (your two Lab VMs), and add the shared configuration file to the mounted share. After completing these tasks, you should be able to view the static website on both servers.

You will need the following information to complete this task:

• The storage account containing the File Share begins with the text webconfig.
• The File Share called config mounted at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled on both servers.
• The Samba credentials file that exists on both servers at /etc/smbcredentials/webconfig.cred.
• The configuration file called default.

• The contents of the configuration file, which are:

  server {
     listen 80 default_server;
     listen [::]:80 default_server;
  
     root /www/satt;
  
     index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
  
     server_name _;
  
     location / {
         try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
     }
  }

If you get stuck, feel free to check out the solution video, or the detailed instructions under each objective. Good luck!