Meta blogging

Meta

I wanted to write something to keep up with my buzzword-bingo, so I rewrote my blog using hip technologies.

The idea behind the blog-post flow is to:

• Commit Markdown files to a GitHub repository
• Get GitHub to trigger a build on my Jenkins server
• Sync the resulting built to the web server hosting my blog

The build is triggered when the commit message matches ^deploy [a-zA-Z_.-]; on matching commits, Jenkins launches a Docker container that:

• Scans the Markdown for images (both inline and ref)
• Uploads the local images to S3 and replaces the path in the Markdown
• Converts the Markdown to HTML
• Populates a template for the blog-post
• Updates the index file with all posts, sorted by date

XKCD 917

Everything is on GitHub