[LRUG] Launching websites

[Ben Jackson]

Like the Terraform idea, you could use any provisioning software for this.
Ansible is a good one, fairly simple - it uses yml as a format for
configuring all the steps to run and variables to use.

You just code up each step you normally carry out manually. Every step
ideally has a way of knowing it's already been done so it can be skipped
when run the next time. That way if any step fails, you can adjust the
variables or the code and run again without needing to redo everything
already done.

Ben
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 at 17:49, Jon Leighton <j at jonathanleighton.com> wrote:

> I don't have the same problem as you (i.e. I don't create lots of separate
> websites) but I've been using Terraform (https://www.terraform.io/) a bit
> recently. I think it could help you automate some of that list, assuming
> the providers you want to use are supported by Terraform (it's still fairly
> new and shiny).
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, at 02:17 PM, David Vaks wrote:
>
> Hi LRUG,
>
> This is slightly off topic, but I can imagine some of you might have faced
> this situation. I've been launching quite a few Rails websites lately. It
> usually involves at least the following for me:
> - Domain registration and DNS setup
> - Server/Host configuration: Heroku setup (registration, environment
> variables for some of the steps above) or Docker setup
> - Deployment
> - Security aspects: TLS certificates, HTTPS setup, HTTP security headers,
> etc
> - Legal aspects: cookie policy, T&Cs, privacy, etc (implications from
> other steps)
> - Email: basic setup, SPF/DKIM for the spam, create RFC email addresses,
> etc
> - Mailing list setup (MailChimp or others)
> - Social media: signup to a few social networks, add "social sharing"
> buttons
> - Analytics/instrumentation/monitoring (Google Analytics, New Relic, etc)
> - Search engine registration/indexation (Google, Bing)
> - etc
>
> Some of these steps are interlinked and that's only for fairly "basic
> website" without any payment, A/B testing, user feedback or advertising
> requirements.
>
> None of it is particularly complex, although it does require some
> knowledge/experience, but it takes quite a lot of time and feels repetitive.
>
> There are lots of great products/services for the individual steps
> involved, but I can't find anything to streamline the whole (or at least
> part of the) process.
>
> Does anyone know any good tool, product, checklist or website for this? Do
> you have the same problem? How do you handle this yourself?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> David
>
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