Currently, I work as an Infastructure and Cloud consultant at Red Hat within the consulting team. I predominantly work in the storage and container ecosystems but have an interest in most things Linux related.

Prior to this I worked in the hosting industry building solutions at a global scale.

The purpose of this site is for me to write about things I’ve found interesting, as well as a general scratch pad for labs and test.

Opinions expressed are my own and not related to/endorsed by my employer in any fashion.

The Website⌗

This is a static website stored entirely within GitLab. It use the Hugo static site generator to build the site.

The site is then hosted on Netlify on a global CDN.

Updates are done using the standard git workflow, then a trigger is sent from Gitlab to Netlify to rebuild and republish the site.

Infrastructure⌗

Gitlab⌗

The site is maintained in GitLab here.

For images and other large binary conetent, GitLab LFS is utilised. This is to prevent the main repo filling up with (non-necessary) versioning information for these data-types.

Hugo⌗

When adding new content for the site, running a preview can be very helpful. This can be done by having the hugo binary on your local machine and running hugo server -D from within the root of the git directory. This will then have a development version of the site at http://127.0.0.1:1313.

When using a local development hugo and Netlify, be sure to have the Hugo Version defined in a netlify.toml file to allow the site to build with the relevant version of Hugo.

The theme is a slightly butchered version of panr’s terminal theme

Netlify⌗

Netlify is a web developer platform that multiplies productivity.

By unifying the elements of the modern decoupled web, from local development to advanced edge logic, Netlify enables a 10x faster path to much more performant, secure, and scalable websites and apps.

Current build status from Netlify Netlify Status

Workflow⌗

Adding content to the site is done using this method:

  • Checkout the GitLab repository
  • Update or add content to content/posts
  • Check the new content with aspell and the --markdown filter
    
aspell --mode=markdown check gluster-3.8.4-upgrade.md`
  • Push new content back to GitLab
  • NetLify triggers a build once git is updated - it checks out the content from git, applies the Hugo generator to the site and then publishes it on a specific URL
    
11:32:36 AM: Build ready to start
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11:32:44 AM: using git lfs fetchinclude override of: *
11:32:45 AM: Different build command detected, going to use the one specified in the Netlify configuration file: 'hugo --gc --minify' versus 'hugo' in the Netlify UI
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11:32:52 AM:   Netlify Build                                                 
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11:32:52 AM: ❯ Version
11:32:52 AM:   @netlify/build 8.0.3
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11:32:52 AM: ​
11:32:52 AM: $ hugo --gc --minify
11:32:52 AM: Building sites … WARNING: calling IsSet with unsupported type "invalid" (<nil>) will always return false.
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11:32:52 AM:   Netlify Build Complete                                        
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