serverless.industries

serverless.industries is a jekyll and gitlab-ci driven blog for topics like software enginerring, linux, containers, continious integration and networking.

New articles are created via pull requests.

This blog is open for new authors.

Feel free to contact the creator and ask for access.

License

All blog posts are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

The source code is licensed unter the MIT License.

Technical Workflow

Create a new branch
Write a blog post or page
Commit & Push
Wait for staging pipeline
Rewiew your changes via Staging environment
- Stage is password protected
- You can find the URL and the credencials in the job log
Merge request approval
- Staging environment gets removed
New version of the blog page gets deployed
Profit

Other Technical Details

Static page generation with Jekyll and Sass
Build runs in a custom docker container
Uses Bootstrap 4 and JQuery for the theme
Uses Font Awesome

Magic files

Create a file named enforce-insecure in the main directory to enforce no password protection for branch stages
Create a file named enforce-new-password in the main directory to enforce the creation of a new stage password

Run website on local machine

Install ruby
Clone repository and open a terminal in the repo folder
gem install jekyll bundler
bundle install
chmod a+x start-server.sh
./start-server.sh
Open the website in browser

perryflynn/serverless.industries