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+title: 'Deploying the Severed Blog'
+date: 2025-12-28 02:00:00 -0400
+categories:
+  - blog_app
+highlight: true
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+We are taking a simple static website, the **Severed Blog**, and engineering a proper infrastructure around it.
+
+Anyone can run `docker run nginx`. The real engineering challenge is building the **platform** that keeps that application alive, scalable, and observable.
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+In this project, we will build a local Kubernetes cluster that mimics a real cloud environment. We will not just deploy the app; we will implement:
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+- **High Availability:** Running multiple copies so the site never goes down.
+- **Auto-Scaling:** Automatically detecting traffic spikes and launching new pods.
+- **Observability:** Using the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Prometheus) to visualize exactly what is happening inside the cluster.
+
+The infra code can be found in [here](https://git.severed.ink/Severed/Severed-Infra).
+The blog code can be found in [here](https://git.severed.ink/Severed/Severed-Blog).
+
+Let's start by building the foundation.
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+[[2025-12-27-part-1]]