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I just finished building version two of my personal website and this is the first post since the update, describing the new setup of this website. tl;dr This website runs on Firebase Hosting deployed as a static site built with GatsbyJS. Old Setup My old website was built with Wordpress and hosted on Google Cloud running on Kubernetes. I was not comfortable with continuing to maintain the old setup in terms of costs and time required for managing the website. You can find the post about the old…

In this post, I'm going to describe how to deploy the stateless docker container image from one of my last posts onto Google Container Engine. Container Engine is a hosted Kubernetes Service, which means this setup is based on Kubernetes specific deployment configurations. Building our configurations based on Kubernetes allows us to decouple from the Cloud Provider which enables us to switch to another Kubernetes based Service, or even host our own cluster. Google Container Engine provides a…

Update: This post does not reflect my current setup anymore, check this post to find my new Setup. Welcome to my first Post on my personal Blog. In this Post, I'm going to outline how I built this Blog and what technologies and hosting setup I'm using. You maybe already guessed on which platform this Blog is built on, just by looking at the current Theme or checking the source of this page. The Blog is running on WordPress. WordPress is easy to setup and really extensible. In the past, I've…