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title: 'Deploying the Severed Blog'
date: 2025-12-28 10:00:00 -0400
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  - blog_app
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# 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.

In this project, we will build a local Kubernetes cluster that mimics a real cloud environment. We will also implement:

- 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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