Preface This guide comes logically after the previous one I wrote about setting up a digital ocean server with Terraform. You can clone my website’s ansible repository for reference. The main logic for this Ansible configuration happens in the setup.yml file. This file can be called whatever you like as we’ll call it by name … Continue reading Using ansible to prepare a digital ocean droplet to host a static website

Overview of this guide My Terraform Repository used in this guide Terraform is a program that enables you to set up all of your cloud-based infrastructure with configuration files. This is opposed to the traditional way of logging into a cloud provider’s dashboard and manually clicking buttons and setting up things yourself. This is known … Continue reading Setting up a Digital Ocean droplet for a Lupo website with Terraform

Being a Linux user for just over 10 years now, I can’t imagine my life with my aliases. Aliases help with removing the repetition of commonly-used commands on a system. For example, here’s some of my own that I use with the Laravel framework: You can set these in your ~/.bashrc file. See mine in … Continue reading Beyond Aliases — define your development workflow with custom bash scripts

Signing your git commits with GPG is really easy to set up and I’m always surprised by how many developers I meet that don’t do this. Of course it’s not required to push commits and has no baring on quality of code. But that green verified message next to your commits does feel good. Essentially … Continue reading Setting up a GPG Key with git to sign your commits