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post	Deploying the Severed Blog	2025-12-28 10:00:00 -0400	blog_app	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.

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. The blog code can be found in here.

Let's start by building the foundation.

2025-12-27-part-1