This is the source code for asteurer.com.
- The infrastructure for this website is managed with Terraform, which was chosen because the project uses resources from both AWS and CloudFlare.
- Various Python and Bash scripts were written so the website could be up-and-running from scratch in less than 10 minutes.
- The front-end of the project is PHP and HTML files served via NGINX, and encrypted with TLS certificates.
- The back-end portion is a Kubernetes cluster, running a Helm deployment containing Postgres and Golang applications.
- Secrets automation is accomplished using 1Password's CLI and Kubernetes Connect Server.
- Sending image data to S3 via an API was tedious and exposed PUT and DELETE operations to the public internet. Telegram made it possible to manage the image data by pulling from Telegram's servers via
meme-manager, rather than having to manage authentication for pushing directly to the website's servers.
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When visiting the meme gallery, the PHP queries the
db-clientvia a private IP address, which then returns a doubly-linked list node containing the S3 URL for a particular meme, and the IDs for the previous and next meme relative to the particular meme. This allows for stateful-like behavior from a stateless application. -
S3 was intentionally configured to allow public GET requests. This allowed for NGINX to serve HTML and the client to retrieve the image data directly from S3, rather than making unnecessary steps to retrieve the image data from S3 via NGINX.