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Of course that requires a more complex setup for the database server itself, but thanks to Bitnami's mariadb-galera Docker image and Helm chart, I've managed to get to something rather manageable for our purposes:
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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MySQL
MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.
When looking for something more dynamic, I initially though about using Plume, since it's easy to integrate with some applications I plan to deploy later, but unfortunately it's not well maintained anymore. As Ghost or Wordpress seem overkill, I ended up opting for the conveniences of WriteFreely: it lets me create and edit posts in-place, with Markdown support and no need to upload new files. However, that comes with a cost: it requires a MySQL[-compatible] database
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Of course that requires a more complex setup for the database server itself, but thanks to Bitnami's mariadb-galera Docker image and Helm chart, I've managed to get to something rather manageable for our purposes:
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WriteFreely
A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.
When looking for something more dynamic, I initially though about using Plume, since it's easy to integrate with some applications I plan to deploy later, but unfortunately it's not well maintained anymore. As Ghost or Wordpress seem overkill, I ended up opting for the conveniences of WriteFreely: it lets me create and edit posts in-place, with Markdown support and no need to upload new files. However, that comes with a cost: it requires a MySQL[-compatible] database
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The application doesn't have an official Docker image, and the custom ones available are either too old or not available for the ARM64 architecture. The repository provided by karlprieb is a good base to build your own, but it lead to crashes here when compiling the application itself. In the end, I found it easier to create one taking advantage of Alpine Linux's packages:
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If complete self-hosting is a must, I now need some file server capable of generating shareable links, to be used in my Markdown image components. In summary, Syncthing is great for Dropbox-style backups, but can't share links, NextCloud is too resource-heavy and Seafile is interesting but apparently has proprietary encryption, which left me with the lightweight Filebrowser
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pages-gem
A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages
First I've looked at the tools I was already familiar with. I have some old blog where I've posted updates during my Google Summer of Code projects. It uses Jekyll to generate static files, automatically published by GitHub Pages. It works very well when you have the website tied to a version-controlled repository, but it's cumbersome when you need to rebuild container images or replace files in a remote volume even for small changes
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If complete self-hosting is a must, I now need some file server capable of generating shareable links, to be used in my Markdown image components. In summary, Syncthing is great for Dropbox-style backups, but can't share links, NextCloud is too resource-heavy and Seafile is interesting but apparently has proprietary encryption, which left me with the lightweight Filebrowser
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MariaDB
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. (by MariaDB)
It seems easy enough to just deploy a MySQL container and use it, right? Well... It seems that there are some concerns about its licensing and development direction ever since the brand has been bought by Oracle (remember OpenOffice?). That was the motivation for the MariaDB fork, distributed under the GPLv2 license, which nowadays is not even a 100% drop-in replacement for MySQL, but still works for our case
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Plume
Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)
When looking for something more dynamic, I initially though about using Plume, since it's easy to integrate with some applications I plan to deploy later, but unfortunately it's not well maintained anymore. As Ghost or Wordpress seem overkill, I ended up opting for the conveniences of WriteFreely: it lets me create and edit posts in-place, with Markdown support and no need to upload new files. However, that comes with a cost: it requires a MySQL[-compatible] database
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First I've looked at the tools I was already familiar with. I have some old blog where I've posted updates during my Google Summer of Code projects. It uses Jekyll to generate static files, automatically published by GitHub Pages. It works very well when you have the website tied to a version-controlled repository, but it's cumbersome when you need to rebuild container images or replace files in a remote volume even for small changes
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