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.

command line setup and deployment of an nginx server on digitalocean

Mar 3, 2025

In this post you will find my notes on deploying an nginx server on a digitalocean droplet from the command line. I'll be using doctl, the command line tool provided by digitalocean as well as a bash script to do all of the server setup.

doctl for command line deployment of digitalocean droplet

Feb 13, 2025

In this post you will find my notes on deploying a digitalocean droplet, the name digitalocean gives to an virtual private server (VPS) instance, from the command line. I'll be using doctl, the command line tool provided by digitalocean.