Launch type: Non-serverless | Template: Azure VMs | Security: High | Language: HCL

Use Case

• Multi-Zone Web Application Hosting.
  • How it's used: VMSS instances are deployed across zones and fronted by an Application Gateway.
  • Why it matters: Ensures minimal downtime even if one availability zone fails.
• Database-Driven Application with High Availability.
  • How it's used: MySQL Flexible Server is configured with a standby replica across zones.
  • Why it matters: Business continuity for apps like leaderboards, analytics dashboards, or CMS platforms.
• Real-Time Monitoring and Observability.
  • Centralized telemetry collection for VMs, App Gateway, and MySQL to monitor health, performance, and audit trails.
  • VMSS has Azure Monitor Agent and diagnostic settings to log and stream metrics to Log Analytics.

Description

• This infrastructure is a zonally redundant, VM-based deployment on Azure designed to host scalable web applications with a MySQL backend.
• Uses Azure VM Scale Sets behind an Application Gateway for load balancing, with secure internal networking, private DNS resolution, and high-availability MySQL Flexible Server replication across zones.
• Centralized monitoring and diagnostics are enabled via Log Analytics and Azure Monitor to ensure observability and performance tracking.

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