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Created page with "My personal website runs on a bit of an interesting tech stack: MediaWiki on k3s. This page aims to explain a bit about why. === Why MediaWiki? === In short, because I realised I was spending longer setting up my personal site's tech stack than producing content. So hopefully the "go to a page and click edit" experience will help. Also because I have a fair bit of experience maintaining [https://wiki.ystv.co.uk/ a MediaWiki site at YSTV] (and even have [https://gerrit...." |
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Also inspired by [https://keysmash.solutions/ a friend of mine] using DokuWiki for hers. | Also inspired by [https://keysmash.solutions/ a friend of mine] using DokuWiki for hers. | ||
=== How Mediawiki? === | |||
Built into a Docker container (with LocalSettings.php in it). | |||
=== Why Kubernetes? === | === Why Kubernetes? === | ||
To learn it mainly. My day job is in DevOps where it's a hot technology. | To learn it mainly. My day job is in DevOps where it's a hot technology. | ||
=== Other Tech === | |||
Here's various other assorted bits of tech that contribute to bringing you this site. Maybe I'll write up extended posts about them. | |||
* GitHub Actions for building the container image | |||
* GitHub Container Registry for hosting it | |||
* Renovate for keeping base images up to date | |||
* FluxCD (WIP) for automatically deploying from GitHub | |||
* cert-manager for certificates | |||
* Tailscale for remote access to the Kubernetes API | |||
* Oracle Cloud, for the free VM it's running on | |||
Latest revision as of 21:23, 9 November 2024
My personal website runs on a bit of an interesting tech stack: MediaWiki on k3s. This page aims to explain a bit about why.
Why MediaWiki?
In short, because I realised I was spending longer setting up my personal site's tech stack than producing content. So hopefully the "go to a page and click edit" experience will help.
Also because I have a fair bit of experience maintaining a MediaWiki site at YSTV (and even have a couple commits to the core).
Also inspired by a friend of mine using DokuWiki for hers.
How Mediawiki?
Built into a Docker container (with LocalSettings.php in it).
Why Kubernetes?
To learn it mainly. My day job is in DevOps where it's a hot technology.
Other Tech
Here's various other assorted bits of tech that contribute to bringing you this site. Maybe I'll write up extended posts about them.
- GitHub Actions for building the container image
- GitHub Container Registry for hosting it
- Renovate for keeping base images up to date
- FluxCD (WIP) for automatically deploying from GitHub
- cert-manager for certificates
- Tailscale for remote access to the Kubernetes API
- Oracle Cloud, for the free VM it's running on