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Introduction

Project Crux is a Linux-based LAMP stack deployment on Microsoft Azure focused on building, securing, monitoring, and documenting a working cloud-hosted web application environment.

In this document, I will go over how I deployed and configured the Azure virtual machine, networking, Network Security Groups, Apache, MariaDB, PHP, and MediaWiki, along with HTTPS, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting, Azure Key Vault, cost tracking, and the troubleshooting I had to do throughout the build.

The final result was a low-cost, operations-focused Azure environment that emphasized security, monitoring, documentation, and budget awareness.