Blog

This describes how this blog is constructed. Below is a description from the bottom up.

• Go is used to parse markdown files and generate HTML for posts. Each time a page is requested it will perform this conversion according to the URL path.

• Gin, a Go web framework, provides URL path routing, HTML templating, and asset management.

• The application runs on Kubernetes, specifically the managed Kubernetes offering from Linode, LKE.

• Traefik runs in Kubernetes and performs some network routing functions, including:

  • Providing NAT into the Kubernetes network for external traffic.
  • Provisioning a Linode NodeBalancer to provision an external IP.

• AWS’s Route53 service provides DNS that resolves to the NodeBalancer external IP.

• Gandi.net provides an SSL certificate which is loaded into Kubernetes as a Secret and terminated by Traefik as part of routing to the blog web service.

Terraform provisions everything except the blog itself, which is deployed directly via a Kubernetes manifest from GitHub Actions.

See: https://github.com/spacez320/eudaimonia