Ask HN: Deployment guides and tutorials with a lot of hand holding?

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4 years ago

I'm a complete simpleton when it comes to cloud tools and using them for app/site deployment. I can upload Git commits or FTP files to a server no problem. I don't know how to spin up a EC2 instance or whatnot to make an entire website visible and managed from the admin side.

To give you an idea of how far I've been gone from the process, the most complete A-Z process I've done for deploying involves installing a LAMP stack, select and configure PHP and Apache modules, and pointing nameservers to load a given web page URI.

It's probably not done anything like that anymore so I am not sure where to begin. What is the most "for dummies" hand-holding guides you can think of for modern deployment setups? I'm struggling because this is where I am having to self-guide more than "learn Python in 12 weeks" kind of stuff and I don't know if that learn in a few weeks example can be applied to deployment so cleanly.

Full disclosure, I don't have a job where I can do this or seek guidance from. I am unemployed and without a personal guide.

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