Having everything happen automatically was a key goal of this project, even down to things like deploying server instances, registering DNS entries, and creating/renewing HTTPS certificates. This was accomplished in part by the companion project to this one.

https://github.com/drakumus/DigitalOceanDropletTerraform

1. Build, tag, and upload a Docker image based off of Nginx, but with the website src added
2. Connect to the remote DigitalOcean server with auto-provisioned ssh keys
3. Upload docker-compose.yml and init-letsencrypt.sh
4. Init certbot on first launch, or do nothing
5. Deploy Docker Compose services (website and certbot)

rebuilds and executes as a detached instance of the docker container

docker compose up --build -d