Cloud Static

• Use Terraform Cloud, Github (+Actions), and AWS to quickly create an inexpensive, low-maintenance static website.
• Update your site with a painless release workflow.

Ship an update to your static site in two easy steps:

1. push a branch with your content/ changes
2. merge your PR

setup

accounts required

• github.com (free)
• terraform cloud (free)
• aws (free tier eligible)

repo setup

• clone this repo
• rm -rf .git
• git init
• github.com
  • create a new empty repo
• git remote add origin <remote-url>

configuration

• AWS

  • out of band, create an AWS user terraform-cloud and access key, with attached managed policies:
    • IAMFullAccess
    • AmazonS3FullAccess

• Terraform Cloud

  • create an organization
  • create a workspace in the organization
  • Add environment variables to your workspace, for the terraform-cloud access keys you created above:
    • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
  • update the terraform cloud remote backend details in main.tf

• After the first terraform apply:

  • create github repo secrets (settings > secrets), using the values in terraform cloud (view in state):
    • created for the <project-name>_CI user
      • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
      • AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    • bucket_name