I wanted to use both ansible and terraform in a project for practice purposes and came up with a simple infrastructure to host my website in a ec2 instance using nginx.Terraform is used to provision infrastructure ie create an ec2 instance while ansible is used for configuration management ie installing all the software in the ec2 instance prerequisites install the following using your distro package manager terraform ansible set up aws credentials main use the aws provider provider "aws" { region = var.

image: https://unsplash.com/@ngeshlew Automation is all the rage nowadays with concepts like infrastructure as code being very popular in all parts of computing, and since my setup hasnt changed much in years i decided it would benefit me to automate it so that the next time i need to reinstall i would not have to install and set up everything by hand.I had already hosted my dotfiles on git and used those in my previous installs, but this time i wanted to automate the installation of the applications as well not just their settings.

Why linux I have been using linux for a few years now and honestly i dont see myself going back to a non unix like operating system anytime soon,as a developer linux offers me powerful tools that help me be productive.The commandline is way more efficient and allows me to automate with ease some of my most common tasks.I have written a few bash scripts that help me with a few common daily things i do like watching youtube videos through mpv media player, a script to automate tmux so i can start working on a project faster.

I wanted an easy and cheap way to create and host my blog site and hugo came out on top for its ease of setup, and i decided to host it on github pages since it was free.You can find out more about github pages and hugo ,hugo is a static site generator written in GO. This are the steps i took to host my blog post Create and host install hugo following instructions for your distro or operating system