aws-personalsite

A small static website that uses Docker+nginx, EC2 and Afraid.org DNS

USAGE:

Run and bind $HOME to target=/path/to/html/ for Docker nginx.

sudo docker container run -d --name test-nginx --mount type=bind,source=/home/ubuntu/,target=/var/www/html/ -p 80:80 nginx_site:0.1

TODO:

• crontab (automation) for FreeDNS script - Semi-complete, considering doing this with Terraform ✅
• Logging - EFK Stack - Priority ⚡
• Grafana - Priority ⚡
• Actual Site Content(SoonTM) - Low priority ⬇️
• StartTree - Low priority ⬇️
• index.html and CSS to handle font-family tags instead of letting each tag use it individually. - Basic Implementation Done ✅
• Gitea - Low priority ⬇️
• Document the method to add emoji unicode to the <title> tag - Low priority ⬇️
• Rewrite the Dockerfile - Priority ⚡ ▶️ In Progress

Caveats:

• Exposing EC2 Port 80 for testing to 0.0.0.0/0 ::0 allows brute-force GET/POST attacks looking for unpatched 0-Day exploits.
• If a suspected breach has occured on the EC2 instance, nuke .ssh/* on the compromised host, immediately close off ports on AWS Console from internet, invalidate the dirty SSH keys and terminate the instance ASAP.
• Recreating an EC2 testing instance takes long, requires doing a full-upgrade and apt-get upgrade, and then installing Docker. Look into cutting down time with Terraform and ArgoCD.

Changes:

• 0.1 - Initial Commit. Created Dockerfile. Broke the html in vim when trying to test docker volume bind mounts.
• 0.2:

• Security hardening, nginx config rebuilt from the ground up to mitigate brute force attacks via HTTP/S.
• Enabled Snyk container image scanning and GitHub workflows.