my-first-devops-project

Introduction

This is my first DevOps project where I try to deploy my static site. Visit https://www.cheeseong-luan.dev/ to see my deployed portfolio site.

Tech Stack

• IaC and Infrastructure Provisioning: Terraform
• Deployment and Configuration Management: Ansible
• Cloud Platform and Server: AWS
• Static Site Generator: Hugo
• Web server: Nginx
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Things to be done

• Terraform IaC

  • Instance
  • Security Group
  • VPC
  • Terraform Cloud
  • Elastic IP for static public IP

• Hugo

  • Customise portfolio site

• Domain

  • Get a domain (cheeseong-luan.dev)
  • Add DNS record on registrar to point to provisioned EIP

• Configure nginx server

  • Set up Certbot
    • Get a SSL Cert
    • Automate SSL renewal
  • Point DNS record to EIP
  • Ensure https://cheeseong-luan.dev works

• Ansible

  • Set up Inventory
  • Set up Playbook
    • Synchronise built site to server
    • Change ownership to nginx

• GitHub Actions

  • Write CI/CD workflow / pipeline

    • Build stage

      • Set up and build Hugo site with hugo commands
      • Store/Upload built site as artifact on GitHub

    • Deploy stage

      • Set up ansible
      • Use repository secret to interact with server
      • Run ansible playbook to deploy

  • Store Ansible secrets as repository secret