Warning: this is yet another delayed announcement :-)
I'm happy to announce here that since September 1st of past year I left Titans
Group and Joined
RedHat, working remotely from Brazil. I'm working as
Software Engineer, and I'm a member of the oVirt
integration team.
After 3 months working from Brazil, I moved to Brno, Czech Republic. Now I'm
working from one of the RedHat offices in the city.
You can expect some posts here about my work, that is mostly open-source now,
and about my experiences in Czech Republic.
While users may be able to use blogc as is with the help of generic tools,
some of these tools are really boring to setup.
With that in mind, I'm trying to develop some simple tools to help the users
getting their blogs online. At this point I have two tools ready for usage:
Packages are available for Gentoo, and in my Copr
repository for
RHEL/CentOS/Fedora.
blogc-git-receiver
blogc-git-receiver is a login shell and a git pre-receive hook, that
can create git repositories and build/deploy your websites automatically.
Users just need to create an user, configure it to use
blogc-git-receiver as its login shell, then every time that some
authorized user pushes to a repository it will create a local bare
repository in the server, if needed, and if the push includes some change to
the master branch, it will rebuild your website for you.
blogc-git-receiver tries to be as atomic as possible, building the new
version of the website in a separate directory, and using a symlink to point
to the most recent version of the website, removing the old version only
after a successful new build.
blogc-git-receiver creates a symlink inside the bare git repository,
called htdocs, that points to the last successful build. Users just need
to make their webservers use this symlink as document root for their virtual
host, and make sure that the webserver can follow symlinks.
With this tool, users can create their own PaaS-like environment, using a
cheap VPS to host lots
of blogs. ;-)
This tool is one of the reasons why I wanted to make blogc as fast as
possible, because it will rebuild all the website every time, not just the
changes, for the sake of consistency.
This tool is also a good sample code for people interested in understand how
a login shell and a git hook works.
Gentoo package is dev-vcs/blogc-git-receiver and RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
package is blogc-git-receiver.
Some simple documentation is available at:
https://github.com/blogc/blogc-git-receiver
blogc-runserver
blogc-runserver is a simple HTTP server, that comes with several rules
pre-defined, that tries to mimic the way most production servers work when
serving static websites. Users just need to point blogc-runserver to the
output directory where blogc created its result files.
A simple Makefile rule is able to run your website for testing:
serve: all
blogc-runserver $(OUTPUT_DIR)
Yeah, it is really that simple! :)
Please keep in mind that this server should not be used in production. It is
really simple, and developed for testing purposes.
Gentoo package is www-servers/blogc-runserver and RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
package is blogc-runserver.
Some simple documentation is available at:
https://github.com/blogc/blogc-runserver
I have more ideas of new tools, that I will probably explain in future posts,
but if you have ideas of useful tools, please let me know.
Thanks.
