Hello, World !

As part of my new webpage I decided to start a blog about things I find interesting, that I recently learned and my old and still active passion, mathematics.

I will start off by giving an end-to-end tutorial on how to set up a webpage like this.

In the fury of trying to decentralize everything, I first did this whole setup in a small (three node) kubernetes cluster.

This method has surely its advantages:

• everyhing is yaml, hence easy to reproduce,
• during deployment no downtime due to k8s,
• load balancing is easy,
• fun to see all components interactig.

However, after a short time, I realized that it is much cheaper and probably as quick to set up a webpage like this in a single tiny linux box. Acutally this one runs on a Cent OS VM with 1 CPU and 1 GB memory.

In the next post, I will show you how to do this with a static website generator. The main ingredients are

• a tiny bit of linux hacking,
• nginx as webserver,
• cert-manager for TLS encryption,
• hugo as static website generator,
• jenkins as automation tool.

See you for the next post 😁