Building a Linux Web Server

So we have our droplet and our admin user. The next step is securing our web server before we start deploying app. 🧹 Let’s Tidy Things Up: From Playbooks to Roles Previously, we created a separate playbook file for each task (like creating the admin user). While this works for small projects, it quickly becomes…

Now that we’ve provisioned our droplet with Terraform, it’s time to create a proper admin user. It’s bad practice to SSH into a server as root, so we’ll create a limited user with sudo privileges for day-to-day admin tasks. We’ll use Ansible to automate this step, just like a real production environment. 📁 Step 1:…

In this post, we’ll walk through how to use Terraform to create and configure a DigitalOcean droplet, which will serve as the foundation for deploying a Python Flask app. We’ll automate infrastructure provisioning step-by-step to make future deployments repeatable and easy. 🌐 Step 1: Configure the Terraform Provider The first thing we need to do…

In this series, we’ll walk through a hands-on example of setting up a Linux web server from scratch. This is a great project for junior DevOps or cloud engineers—you’ll practice Linux fundamentals, explore infrastructure as code, and get familiar with tools that are widely used in real-world environments. Even if your end goal is to…