From c2887ecbc542b88bbc8c54258ad714e37a56f94d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:29:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] daily-email: add 2023-03-15 --- website/src/daily-emails/2023-03-15.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 website/src/daily-emails/2023-03-15.md diff --git a/website/src/daily-emails/2023-03-15.md b/website/src/daily-emails/2023-03-15.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c6ee4345 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/src/daily-emails/2023-03-15.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: > + The benefits of automation +pubDate: 2023-03-15 +permalink: > + archive/2023/03/15/the-benefits-of-automation +tags: + - automation +--- + +I've been working on a project with a client, using [Fractal](https://fractal.build) for our component library. I've been working on it locally but yesterday I needed to make it public for the client to review the work I've done. + +I recently added `node` support to my [build configuration file generator](https://www.oliverdavies.uk/archive/2023/03/04/why-i-built-a-tool-to-generate-configuration-files) and used that to generate and use a consistent set of configuration files for a Fractal project. + +I've used Terraform in [some codebases](https://github.com/opdavies/rebuilding-acquia) to create and configure AWS resources like S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions, so I was able to use that to create what I needed as well as adding the DNS record for a new subdomain to access Cloudfront. + +I use a `justfile` to automate tasks such as generating production assets from Fractal and uploading it to the S3 bucket, so I can do this in a single command instead of multiple and in a consistent and reproducible way. + +I started with a standalone project on my laptop and finished with a consistent cloud-based environment for my client and their project to review their component library, and because of the automation that I've built and used, this only took a few minutes to do.