Articles tagged as "Infrastructure as Code"

I’ve been doing some “spring cleaning” in AWS and GitHub related to yesterday’s post, and while I was digging around, I realized there was a way to update my blogging stack and finally move it off GitHub Pages and instead use an AWS S3 bucket behind CloudFront, just like all of of my other websites.

If, like me, you use AWS CloudFront as a CDN to host content stored in an S3 bucket, you might not necessarily want search engines to index that content. When researching a solution to this problem for myself, I found plenty of forum discussions and blog posts suggesting you can accomplish this with a simple robots.txt file stored at the root of your S3 bucket. Google’s robots.txt documentation warns against doing this, however:

After years without a good solution to my “static AWS IAM user secrets” problem, I’ve recently set up Dynamic Provider Credentials for AWS in my Terraform Cloud org.