The recent Amazon S3 outage showed us just how delicate the state of the web is, especially when you don’t utilize Amazon’s built-in redundancy features. My goal was to create a highly-available and scalable WordPress installation in AWS using Docker. I would have auto-scale Docker clusters in multiple Availability Zones running Nginx, PHP-FPM, and a Redis client. The Docker config and WordPress install would be on EFS volumes that would be
mounted in the Docker containers. I would use an RDS MariaDB for the database backend and Redis-based ElastiCache for serving up the site blazing fast from memory.
Test Case: Deploying a Hugo App to Heroku
I have recently been hearing about Hugo and how easy it is to manage for blogs and such (it uses/renders Markdown), and ever since I heard about Heroku’s free tier, I’ve been wanting to give it a shot. This article will be documenting how I went about doing both.
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