Blog

What

Repository for the blog Features of using gitlab:

• version control
• CI/CD pipelines
• gitlab container image repository

The CI/CD pipeline builds the blog into both arm64 so I can host the site on my Pi cluster as well as amd64 to host on other platforms i.e eks

Why

Pros of static sites

• Security
• Reliability
• Speed
• Scalability
• Low Resource overhead

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

• Hugo compiles markdown into static files.
• Gitlab CI/CD builds the docker image.
• Kubernetes Cluster serves static files.

Do list

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Notes

When Pulling / Cloning

git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/ahmza/blog

Update the theme

git submodule update --remote --merge