About

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I’m Joshua. I’m a DevOps professional and a nerd layperson based in the US.

I built this site as a place to document my work, share things I’ve learned, and maintain my own long-lived notes and documentation.

Feel free to reach out on GitHub or LinkedIn.

Blog Infrastructure

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This site is a statically generated Hugo blog hosted on AWS, deployed automatically via GitHub Actions on every push to main.

Write Markdown → push to main → GitHub Actions builds Hugo → syncs to S3 → CloudFront serves it

Component	Purpose
Hugo	Static site generator — turns Markdown into HTML
S3	Stores the built HTML/CSS/JS files
CloudFront	CDN — serves the site over HTTPS globally
ACM	TLS certificate for `blog.joshua-does-things.com`
Cloudflare	DNS — CNAME pointing to CloudFront (DNS-only, not proxied)
GitHub Actions	CI/CD — builds and deploys on push to `main`
Spacelift	Manages Terraform state and infrastructure changes

S3 static website hosting only supports HTTP. CloudFront provides HTTPS, a global CDN cache, and lets us use a custom domain with a proper TLS cert.

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Lookit that first post.