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I'm building my own education platform around getting people into IT and towards a career in Cloud and DevOps.

A few months back I built a Nomad based cluster with Consul and was like: wow! This is super cool... but it's also expensive and complex.

I'm going to be building out the platform with an ALB, two EC2 Instances in an AutoScaling Group based on an AMI I bake with Ansible and Packer. I'll use Terraform for the entire infrastructure.

The release pipeline for content updates (it's an MkDocs/Material based book with videos blended in) will be me updating the AMI and firing off a `terraform apply`.

I won't be using Docker. I won't require or need an orchestration engine.

It's a static website delivered via a custom web server written in Go (as I need custom "Have you paid to view this content?" logic.) That's about as complex as it gets for now.

I'm actually looking forward to implementing it and watching as something so simple hopefully goes on to allow me to build and scale a business.




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