Challenge Overview
This is the 250 points Easy level problem of Topcoder Skill Builder Challenge: Azure. For more challenge context info Register for the Host Competition before submitting a solution to this problem.
Problem Statement: Move to Cloud
The community is growing and the local server is not good enough to keep fast response in rush hours, Sillbook needs your help to move from local server to cloud based server.
What do you need to do?
- You have to grab this existing wordpress app: Skillbook
- Deploy the application in a Azure Linux Virtual Machines, please use free tier vm (B1S VM).
- Deploy a MySQL server with Azure MySQL Server, import data from skillbook.sql folder in repository.
Instructions:
- We have prepared three problems: Easy, Medium, and Hard, which are worth 250, 500, 1000 points respectively. Points are based on the difficulty of the problem.
- The competitions may or may not be related to each other.
- The links to the problems/competitions are provided below.
- Each problem has one single requirement to achieve. We will judge your submission based on the requirement being fulfilled in each problem, so as long as the requirements are met with minimal code quality, you would be rewarded with points for that particular problem.
- Here is the leaderboard with individual problem score and total score across weeks is available.
Problems
- Easy: 250 Points :: Move to Cloud
- Medium: 500 Points :: Load Balancer and Scalability
- Hard: 1000 Points :: DevOps - Board, Pipelines and Testing
Final Submission Guidelines
Submission deliverables
- README.txt with link to application and Azure resource group name
- Includes IP/URL to server in README.txt
- Includes Resource Group URL to README.txt
- Add reviewer to Azure resource group (check the forum)