Automating My Personal Site Updates

by David Parsons

I recently moved this site over to DigitalOcean. I decided to start everything over from scratch. Here are the tutorials I went though:

  1. Server Setup
  2. LEMP
  3. HTTPS and HTTP2
  4. WordPress
  5. GZIP

In addition, I wanted to automate the updates on my server including: Ubuntu, WordPress and Custom Github Code. I implemented auto-updates by doing the following:

  • Installing and configuring unattended-upgrades instead of running “sudo apt-get update” and “sudo apt-get upgrade” every time I want to update the server.
  • Installed WP-CLI to manage WP, themes and plugins.
  • Created a list of bash alias’ and put them into my servers .bash_profile file to run a single command to update everything within the server.