Fast, turnkey static web site recipe (Terraform and Jekyll and AWS)

What it does

Terraform is great; I provide a Terraform recipe that’s easy to get started with, along with some things I learned along the way. Software developers who are interested in trying out Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure. Until recently, my old web property languished on a past end-of-life Rails Heroku stack. It was slow to build and served over plain HTTP. Time for an upgrade. I taught myself Terraform (and Jekyll) by migrating to this new stack. I’m convinced it’s an ideal configuration for modern static sites: S3-backed CloudFront offers blazing fast page loads, SSL/TLS configuration is one-and-done, and your cloud architecture is expressed in code, so you never need click through…from peterkong.com

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