site-in-a-box

Terraform module that supports hosting of a basic static site using cloud services:

• S3 - hosts files
• Cloudfront - Provides Internet to S3 connectivity
• Cloudflare - Provides DNS records & other default features (such as bot prevention)

Prerequisites

• You own a domain name
• This domain name has been configured in Cloudflare
  • The nameservers of your registrar have been configured to use Cloudflare's
  • The domain is saved with no DNS records inside
  • The domain is configured to use Full (Strict) SSL/TLS connectivity between the Cloudfront proxy service & the downstream (will be Cloudfront)
• You have an AWS cloud account

Usage

Reference this module in your terraform like so:

module "main" {
  source = "[email protected]:dotdashnotdotsoftware/site-in-a-box.git"

  environment = "prod"
  domain      = "example.com"
  src_dir     = "${path.root}/../../src/"
}

And first run this command:

terraform plan/apply -target <prefix_path>.site-in-a-box.module.aws_infra
# Example
terraform plan/apply -target module.site-in-a-box.module.aws_infra

to set up everything in AWS. At this point, you should have created:

• A new S3 bucket
• All of your files in S3
• A cloudfront distribution in front
• SSL certificates ready for cloudflare and the ability to directly access the site via the cloudfront link. Finally, run a full apply to finish configuring Cloudflare:

terraform apply

Once this is done, your domain should now work on http/https on both www. and simply .