terraform & ansible for deploying an 11ty site at digitalocean

Mar 24, 2025

This post will document my method for creating a droplet (VPS) at digitalocean to host an 11ty website. This will be a single nginx server with a domain, certificate setup for https, a firewall using ufw, etc. The goal is to make this process quick and reproducble using terraform and ansible.

safely storing environmental secrets

Mar 19, 2025

In this post I will cover safely storing environmental variables that are required when using command line tools for digitalocean, AWS, etc. These services all require tokens/passwords that have to be passed and storing them safely is essential. These are my notes on the topic.

install terraform on linux

Mar 12, 2025

In this post I will cover installation of Hashicorp Terraform on my Linux box (Pop!_OS / Ubuntu). Terraform has a repository that can easily be added, making the process simple and familiar. In fact, it is the same as the Packer repository, so installation is super simple if you've followed the previous post.

install packer on linux

Mar 11, 2025

In this post I will cover installation of Hashicorp Packer on my Linux box (Pop!_OS / Ubuntu). Packer has a repository that can easily be added, making the process simple and familiar.

install ansible on linux

Mar 10, 2025

In this post I will cover installation of Ansible on my Linux box (Pop!_OS / Ubuntu). Ansible is a python package, so it's turns out that this addition to my DevOps tools is pretty simple to install.