Creating an OpenCart online store

OpenCart is a platform where you can create your own online store. The platform is free and open-source. With OpenCart, you can create an online store of any complexity using a broad selection of community-supported extensions.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and configure an OpenCart online store. You will deploy a VM with pre-installed OpenCart and the software it needs to run, specifically the MySQL server.

The guide describes both configuring a local MySQL server and deploying a Yandex Managed Service for MySQL® database cluster in case your local DBMS does not provide sufficient performance or functionality.

You can create an OpenCart online store infrastructure using one of these tools:

• Management console: Create your infrastructure one step at a time from the Yandex Cloud management console.
• Terraform: Streamline creating and managing your resources using the infrastructure as code (IaC) approach. Download the Terraform configuration example from the GitHub repository, and then deploy the infrastructure using the Yandex Cloud Terraform provider.