I talked about starting a personal blog at an internal study group!

Hello,
I'm Teraoka, an infrastructure engineer.

Our company holds an internal study session once a month,
where I talked about starting a personal blog.
Although it's completely unrelated to work, I thought I'd leave it here as a memo.
You can see the slides below!

https://www.slideshare.net/BeyondCorporation/20190917-bydstudy1-teraoka

Things to consider when starting a personal blog

• I don't want to spend a lot of money
• Reduce the resources you need to manage

These are the two points.
Since I will be running it personally, I want to keep running costs as low as possible and
also reduce the resources I need to manage (networks and servers) as much as possible.

Also, to be honest, I don't need extreme redundancy or availability, so
I don't particularly manage it, but it works reasonably well, and if it stops due to a problem, then there's nothing I can do about it.
That's my stance.

What we devised to launch

The blog I created has the following features:

• All static content such as HTML and CSS
• Does not use a database
• Zero running costs, excluding domain maintenance costs
• There is no privately managed server

To achieve this, we use
Hugo and GitHub Pages I won't go into detail about the tools themselves, as they are already listed in the slides.

• Managing static sites with Hugo
• Upload a Hugo-managed site to a GitHub Pages-enabled repository

By doing these two things, the site is now running with a mechanism that is almost the same as S3 static website hosting.
Initially, we had planned to build it using CloudFront + S3, but we decided against it due to the running costs.

from now on

Although I've launched it, I haven't been able to write any articles yet, so I'm going to increase the number of articles!
I'm thinking of writing about Terraform at first, but
if you're interested, please take a look!