A repo that can set up all of my applications (presently, AwardIt, personal site, MissingLink, StarterTab, Umami) in the cloud, keeping in mind the concept 'cattle, not pets'

• kubernetes
• packer
• terraform

• non-prod environments for all sites
• taking backups for my dbs into an s3 bucket (configured and stood up with Terraform)
• I should be able to able to bootstrap all my websites from these scripts with minimal click-ops (exceptions for things like dns)

• $20 for Vercel
• $6 for Digital Ocean
• $2.5 for AWS

Can I get this down with containerization and free tiers?

• sets up an ubuntu image using packer
• configures that image with ansible
• deploys that image, among other things using terraform

• next action

  • only push up the DB backups if it's PROD, don't take the backup scripts if I am doing a non-prod build
    • should be deleted out of crontab, isn't
  • start working on getting Cloudflare working for StarterTab front end

• move from Vercel to Cloudflare pages for startertab

  • get a baseline of speed for comparison
  • build out a non-prod env using terraform in Cloudflare pages
  • swap out prod
  • Cloudflare link
  • Terraform link

• use ansible to set up my ubuntu image with the following

  • firewall rules
    • hbfw (ssh and https, nothing else)
  • nginx
  • nodejs and .net installs
  • redis
  • configuring the swap (common)
  • systemd for missinglink & awardit
  • cron job to call the missinglink backend
  • s3 bucket backups for the databases (something I need to get going on the extant VM)
    • procure an s3 api key
    • use terraform to build an s3 bucket
    • get a script working that takes a postgres backup to a directory
      • need to create a new disk volume, running out of space (20gb) (needs 5gb then more for backing up...)
    • use a cron job to back up and push up the backup to s3 daily
    • include those scripts (to pull down once), and then to push up in the future
  • postgres setup
    • install the db
    • accounts
    • edit the PostgreSQL pg_hba.conf file so that it allows logins from localhost so I can take backups answer
    • databases (comes from s3, have a command line or variable to disable this so that it doesn't use too much bandwidth)

• how do I do DNS to set this up as a non-prod?

• use terraform for the following

  • standing up the image

  • get the IP showing after creation

  • nbfw create a new rule and attach it

  • edit aws route53 to point the non-prod dns entry to the host's IP using provisioners

  • certificates (letsencrypt)

    • generate letsencrypt certs (sudo certbot --nginx)

  • set up nginx for non-prod

  • set up dns records for non-prod using route 53

  • set up certificates

  • get this all working with non-prod front ends

    • set up startertab with cloudflare?
    • how do I manage the non-prods envs linking in with Vercel, I need to get my backend urls from env variables

• long term todos/clean ups

  • build a diagram to show what these scripts are doing, or just a list
  • clean up this README as a piece of documentation
  • I need to know if the database backups into s3 fail somehow, scripts?
  • hosting and deployment of the awardit front end
  • hosting and deployment of allistergrange.com front end