# Blog

## What
This repository is where the blog is stored.
Features of using gitlab:
- version control
- CI/CD pipelines
- gitlab container image repository

Github Repo simply becasue TINA !!

The CI/CD pipeline builds the blog into both arm64 so I can host the site on my [Pi cluster](https://blog.ahmza.com/posts/building-a-docker-swarm-with-pis/) as well as amd64 to host on other platforms i.e eks

## Why

# Pros of static sites
* Security
* Reliability
* Speed
* Scalability
* Low Resource requirement

I had rack mounted servers running my website and decided that the power hungry machines were consuming way too much power
so I decided to migrate to a cluster of raspberry pis which you can find a post on my site. A static site made the most sense
for reasons mentioned above

## How

Simply put
* Hugo
* Gitlab CI/CD to build the image
* Kubernetes Cluster to host

## Do list

## Notes

# When Pulling / Cloning
``` bash
git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/ahmza/blog
```

# Update the theme
``` bash
git submodule update --remote --merge
```