Please see the infra repo for everything infrastructure and platform related to this project.

mark.wilson.codes was created to provide an online presence and as a demonstration of DevOps and web development skills. There will be a strong focus on DevOps and back-end web development, with a few interactive demos down the line.

The name also tells you who I am and what I do!

For the web framework, I have chosen Laravel Jetstream as it provides out-of-the-box user authentication, easy Vue prop hydration via Inertia.js, and back-end routing handled by Laravel.

Cost is a key consideration, and therefore I have chosen to use DigitalOcean as my cloud environment. A similar setup on AWS would be around 5x the cost of DigitalOcean.

This site runs locally in docker utilising configuration from Laravel Sail.

1. Copy the environment file example .env.example to .env
2. Install php/composer locally, and run composer install
3. Add the sail alias to your .zshrc/.bashrc file:
   alias sail='[ -f sail ] && sh sail || sh vendor/bin/sail'
4. Configure and bring up your docker containers:

sail up && \
sail artisan key:generate && \
sail artisan migrate && \
sail npm install && \
sail npm run dev

5. Edit your /etc/hosts file and add
   127.0.0.1 markwcodes.test
6. The site should now be accessible at markwcodes.test