Mark Lowel Montealto — Full Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer

Mark Lowel
Montealto

Full Stack Developer & DevOps Engineer

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#Aws

6 articles

Terraform Modules & Remote State: Structuring Real Infrastructure

May 2026

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2 min read

Stop copy-pasting Terraform across environments. Use modules for reusable infrastructure, remote state with S3+DynamoDB, and workspaces for environment separation.

Deploy a Full-Stack App on AWS: ECS, RDS & CloudFront

April 2026

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3 min read

Deploy a containerised full-stack app on AWS using ECS Fargate for compute, RDS for the database, and CloudFront as a CDN — infrastructure you can actually maintain.

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: Your First AWS Deployment

June 2025

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2 min read

Get started with Terraform: write your first HCL configuration, deploy AWS resources, understand state, and follow the plan/apply workflow — no prior IaC experience needed.

Dockerizing a Next.js App: Multi-Stage Builds for Tiny Images

June 2025

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2 min read

Containerise your Next.js app with a multi-stage Dockerfile that produces a slim production image under 200MB — ready for ECS, Cloud Run, or any container host.

AWS IAM Best Practices for Developers: Least Privilege in Practice

June 2025

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3 min read

Stop using AdministratorAccess everywhere. A practical guide to AWS IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and the least-privilege patterns every developer needs.

CI/CD with GitHub Actions: Automate Testing & Deployment

June 2024

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2 min read

Build a complete CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions — lint, test, Docker build, and deploy to AWS ECS automatically on every merge to main.