Terraform Deployment

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I decided to do some additional work on my site. Initially I was going to set the deployment up using cloudformation, but after doing some other work using terraform for another cloud provider, I just feel like terraform makes a lot more sense and decided to use that instead. For this site I’m hosting the dns zone in route53 and using cloudfront as my web frontend. Cloudfront then uses an ec2 instance as its origin server and since most of the page data is relatively static I think that should prevent the ec2 instance from taking too much traffic and falling over. I’m not likely to do any load tests though so I guess I won’t really know unless my site gets popular for some reason. I’ve also started work on the deployment pipeline. I tend to do things manually at first just to make sure I understand how I want it to be setup, then slowly replace resources with an automated deployment. So step one is to replace ec2 instance, route53 record, and cloudfront resources with versions deployed using terraform. After I’ve completed that I’ll validate my codebuild/codepipeline configuration and begin integrating these with terraform. Below is roughly what it should look like: Enduser access: route53 dns record -> cloudfront endpoint -> ec2 instance

initial commit

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a long time since I hosted anything on this domain. Once I was able to acquire it again I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. I’m not exactly one to blog but I decided it might be useful to have a space where I can document / catalog everything I’ve worked on during my career. If you’re clever and have found a previous version of this site from when I was MUCH younger, you’ll notice quite a bit has changed in the web development space in 18 years. I’ve never been a “professional” web developer but I’ve always known enough to be able to throw up some personal projects. Before the concepts of “front-end developer” and “back-end developer” were really a thing I was doing both on part-time hobby basis. While I’ve always done development of some sort, I have never taken on the challenge of doing it professionally. That’s slowly starting to change as automation is taking over the world, so having any prior experience at all (professional or otherwise) is extremely useful. Professionally I’ve always officially been on the “operations” side of things, but my passion is in building. No matter where I’ve worked I always tried to put myself at the center of finding solutions to unique and challenging problems. This often leads to quite a bit of research and development and I think that’s where I excel. Anyway, in case you’re wondering I’ve managed to put this site together using Gatsby on top of NodeJS. This is my first tiem experiementing with NodeJS and honestly only went with it because that’s what Gatsby runs on so hopefully things turn out well. After I get this site initially published I’ll start working on developing a pipeline via Github to automate publishing of new content, hopefully that will motivate me to write some more about the process. Until then thanks for reading!

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Terraform Deployment

initial commit