Extending an app to connect to an Azure Database

All the examples that we have gone through so far have been self-contained; that is, everything ran inside the Kubernetes cluster. While there is a great advantage to being mostly cloud-agnostic, this is a huge disadvantage when it comes to managing state. Almost any production application has state and is generally stored in a database. In this section, we will launch the WordPress application, but this time we will use an external database managed by Azure.

WordPress backed by Azure MySQL

As with most applications these days, much of the hard work has already been done by the open source community (including those who work for Microsoft). Microsoft has realized that many users...