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  • in DevOps
  • 14 min read

GitOps Project: Automating AWS Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform and GitHub Actions

Overview

As infrastructure becomes more complex, ensuring automation, security, and compliance is crucial. This blog post walks through setting up a GitOps pipeline that simplifies AWS infrastructure management using Terraform and GitHub Actions. Whether you're an engineer looking to automate deployments or a security-conscious DevOps professional, this guide provides a structured approach to implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.

This blog post documents my experience with the MoreThanCertified GitOps Minicamp, where students set up a fully automated GitOps pipeline to manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and GitHub Actions. The goal is to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, enforce security policies, and automate infrastructure deployment.

This tutorial is meant as an overview "at-a-glance" summary of the steps I took to implement the pipeline from project start, to resource deployment. The MoreThanCertified GitOps Minicamp goes into a lot more detail and covers all the topics in this post in more depth. I would highly recommend checking the course out if you haven't already.

Customizing Your MkDocs Blog 🎨

Once you've set up your MkDocs blog, it's time to personalize it. In this post, I'll cover various customizations, including social media sharing hooks, changing the blog icon and favicon, adding authors, and using tags. These modifications will make your blog more interactive and visually appealing.

All of the steps covered in this guide are available in the MKDocs Documentation or via the superb video tutorials created by James Willett

  • in Blogging
  • 3 min read

Enhancing My MkDocs Blog with Custom Features 🚀

Once I set up my MkDocs blog, I wanted to personalize it by adding navigation links, social media icons, an announcement bar, and a custom footer. These enhancements improve user experience, branding, and site functionality. This post walks through each customization step with code examples and configurations.

  • in Blogging
  • 5 min read

Setting Up MkDocs for Your Blog 📝

If you're looking for a simple yet powerful way to create and manage your documentation or blog, MkDocs is a fantastic option. MkDocs is a fast, static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation but works wonderfully for blogs too! In this post, I'll walk you through the steps to set up MkDocs with the popular Material theme and get it hosted on GitHub Pages.

All of the steps covered in this guide are available in the MkDocs Documentation or via the superb video tutorials created by James Willett.

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