Software Stack

The goal of this website is to explore lightweight options for hosting content.

Docker

The site is built into a barebone Alpine Linux docker image.

The image contains a custom Go binary to server static pages.

The image is currently hosted on Google Cloud, but the image should be self-contained and could be deployed anywhere.

Markdown

Pages and posts are written in Markdown. This is generated as part of building the image. This step is handled through a simple shell script that pulls the dates from Git.

Source

You can find the code on GitHub.

The directory have the following meaning:

• html: any static resources to be copied as-is into the image.
• pages: Markdown pages
• posts: Markdown blog posts
• src: Go code to serve the website
• tools: any tools used for building or deploying the image