Infra

You’ve probably seen the posts:

• “How B2B sales helped me run a marathon”
• “How cold calling made me a better engineer”

This isn’t that - unfortunately.

Redirects, DNS, and Terraform

This one started simple: I wanted to redirect the apex domain (vakintosh.com) to the www subdomain.

I figured I’d just do it manually in the Porkbun DNS console - Bad idea.

Porkbun doesn’t warn you that editing an ALIAS record replaces the original record entirely—which is exactly what Terraform had created and was tracking. So now I had:

I wanted to deploy my Hugo website using Terraform and GitHub Actions — securely — with least privilege — without Route 53, using my domain on Porkbun, and leveraging AWS Free Tier services.

Day 1 — AWS Account Setup + Role Plumbing

Started from scratch.

• Created the AWS account
• Set up MFA, secure root, all that
• Made a single Admin IAM user (for CLI/debug, not daily use)

Then I created a role: GitHubAction-AssumeRoleWithAction.