When committing to Cloud Foundry some companies make the strategic decision to take full ownership of platform deployment and operations and deploy open source Cloud Foundry to fully understand all moving parts. While open-source Cloud Foundry has gotten rather easy to delpoy with the cf-deployment project, there is still a lot of more to do in order to make an open-source deployment production ready. This talk will show the challenges we’ve gone through…

Previously, I ran my website with a PHP-based CMS on a shared host and since quite some time I wanted to port it to a static site generator and serve it off of AWS S3. Finally, I found the time to do it. This post summarizes what and why I did my website as it is now, and what process and tools I used to achieve it.

Setting the Goal

With my old website running on Kirby CMS for years I had to maintain a shared host that runs it, and have Cloudflare setup to have improved loading times. Nevertheless, I frequently had outages due to issues on the shared hosting provider. Also, as I wanted to develop new features and improvements for my website I felt I had to invest a significant amount of time into the platform again, to understand and move forward. And spending time in the PHP ecosystem is something I did not want to do anymore. So something had to change.