DevOps Classroom notes 05/May/2026

Deploying a website to a server

• Website is generally written in html, javascript, css
• To deploy a website, we need a webserver (nginx, apache, iis)
• To install webserver we need a linux or windows machine
• Lets create a linux instance(ubuntu 24.04) on cloud and deploy a website
• Steps

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y
# webserver is installed

• Now lets get a webdesign

cd /tmp
wget https://templatemo.com/tm-zip-files-2020/templatemo_617_pixel_forge.zip
sudo apt install unzip -y
unzip templatemo_617_pixel_forge.zip
cd templatemo_617_pixel_forge/
ls

• To host this website, we need to copy the contents into /var/www/html

sudo cp -R . /var/www/html

To run this in a container

• We have two options
  • Take a container with ubuntu (docker image)
    • install webserver
    • copy website
  • Take a container with apache (docker image)
    • copy website
• Docker has a place where images are already available => registry
  • Default registry is docker hub
• Images will have naming convention <name>:<tag>
  • name refers to application
  • tag refers to version
• For apache httpd:2
• Containerization is process of making your application run inside a container.
• For containerization we have two ways
  • manual
  • streamlined