Personal website and all the garbage that comes with it.

The web backend here is a simple Python Tornado app serving templated static content. It is deployed as a Docker container onto the GCP free tier, using Certbot and an in-container Nginx to provision SSL certs and terminate connections.

• store SSL certs in GCP's Secret Manager rather than provisioning them on boot
• automatically pull external IP and update DNS records as needed
• block well known scraper paths (wordpress/php/etc stuff) at the Nginx layer
• move to a more modern web architecture using react/typescript and whatnot