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Why should you do it? Security If you’re using Cloudflare as a DNS proxy for your domain, you might have noticed that Cloudflare first sets up a flexible SSL connection. Flexible ssl websites get all the benefits of https, Google likes them and visitors like them. Even more, these websites Read more…
As a developer of several open source libraries using Angular, React, and Next.js, I have struggled with keeping them up-to-date and ensuring a smooth user experience for updates. Especially if I rarely used my published libraries, they often ended up being outdated. Problem with manual updates I relied on 2 Read more…
Internally my nextjs app uses a native node module built in Rust, and the awkward part is that my production uses a different processor architecture. I opted for the arm64 architecture. I can’t say much about it except it was recommended by aws, cheaper and more performant. My developing machine Read more…
You do not need to enable static website hosting and unblock public access. Following this instruction, your S3 bucket is secure behind a Cloudfront distro. It’s not only for Next.js app, but I did document this following my own Next.js setup. Create Origin Certificates Origin certificates will be used for Read more…
By default every elastic beanstalk application has an associated S3 bucket for storing application versions, rotated logs (enable it) and temporary configuration. Multiple elastic beanstalks in a same region share the same S3 bucket. More on it in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/AWSHowTo.S3.html Push rotated logs to S3 To persist logs, you can configure Read more…
Tips and tricks on my Lightsail instance, configuration and common commands. Removing the bitnami banner Documentation that shows how to remove bitnami banner is outdated for new instances. New instances on Lightsail don’t have a bitnami banner page, which I thought was unnecessary to begin with. You have all of Read more…
I created a custom Github action that deploys a static website to s3, and I want to point out a few details of my process of building a reusable action. For detailed reference refer to https://docs.github.com/en/actions/creating-actions/about-custom-actions. There are 3 types of custom actions – docker, javascript and composite. For deploying Read more…
Unfortunately S3 static doesn’t offer rewrite of urls, and doesn’t know that /page.html should resolve to /page and vice versa. This solution shows how to host a Nextjs static website on S3 without the html extension. Configure S3 Bucket for static website hosting Programmatic access to S3 bucket Your S3 Read more…
Probably ssh connection is not configured, to enable it go to elastic beanstalk instance: Step 1: Go to EC2 dashboard https://eu-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home.Identify which ec2 instance you want to connect to. Name of the instance should correspond to the name of the environment. E.g. myelasticbeanstalk-env. Step 2: Select the instance, click on Read more…
In development I like to use containerized databases. Recently I’ve been working on a micro service project that uses Postgres as a datasource. Each service has it’s own independent datasource. Running independent postgresql docker per service is resource consuming, so hack is to use a single postgres docker with multiple Read more…