Thanks for this. I want to clarify something: the “you” in my post was directed at users of a product like this, not you, the creator.
Re: lower friction, you’re probably correct, though that also brings with it concerns like those that I posted. While installing Terraform and Ansible isn’t difficult, it might keep people away who have no interest in any form of systems administration, and so we come full circle again.
I'm also working on adding manual steps so that folks who prefer to deploy the app themselves can do so.
I initially had the app deployed with Terraform + Ansible, but rewrote it as a bash script as I thought it'd be lower friction.