A (Quick) Deep Dive Into The DevOpsDays Website
A presentation at DevOpsDays Ghent 2019 in in Ghent, Belgium by Matt Stratton
(A QUICK) DEEP DIVE INTO THE DEVOPSDAYS WEBSITE Matt Stratton Chicago / Core
HOW DOES IT EVEN WORK? (MAGIC, OBVIOUSLY) • Uses a static site generator (SSG) called Hugo • Hosted on Netlify • All deployments are kicked off using GitHub • When a PR is submitted, a “deploy preview” is created. • Whatever is merged to the master branch in GH is what is live on Netlify. • It’s all driven by YAML. And Markdown. Fire up your text editors! • Also stuff like Bootstrap, SCSS, FontAwesome, blah blah blah @mattstratton
DEPLOY PREVIEWS ARE RAD AF SERIOUSLY, THEY ARE THE BES T Click here for magic! @mattstratton
I KNOW YOU HAVE IDEAS LET ME TELL YOU OUR CONS TRAINTS • You can only assume that folks have git and hugo. That’s it. • “But what about node?” • Nope. • “But seriously, node would make this easier” • I know. But too bad. @mattstratton
SOME COOL FEATURES YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW @mattstratton
A CUSTOM HEADER BACKGROUND! OOH! @mattstratton
USE YOUR OWN GOOGLE ANALYTICS! @mattstratton
A CUSTOM SOCIAL SHARING IMAGE NOW, PER PAGE! @mattstratton
PRO TIPS FOR BES T AWESOMENESS • Use the utility scripts. Don’t just copy files from last year. Things change! • Test locally. Please, test locally. • Everything is pretty well documented in REFERENCE.md. Refer to it often. • Always rebase before starting up after a while. Things change! • The #website channel in Slack can be your friend. We are happy to help! @mattstratton
WHY BOTHER WITH DEVOPSDAYS.ORG I C AN MAKE A RAD WEBSITE ALL BY MYSELF • SEO is a thing, like, for real for real • History matters. • It might not be fancy, but devopsdays.org is designed for the larger community and things work • Something something Matt rants about websites on behalf of the speakers • Maybe do a redirect from a domain (i.e. devopsdayschi.org) @mattstratton
THINGS TO FIX YES, WE KNOW • The repo is too damn big • Multi-track in the program • Multi-lingual • Build speed • Weird sorting thing that happens sometimes because reasons • Matt sucks at frontend. Like a lot a lot. @mattstratton
DO YOU HAVE IDEAS? LET’S OPEN SPACE THAT SHIT @mattstratton
The point of this talk is to provide some insight and tips into a) features of the devopsdays website you can use as an organizer that you might not know about and b) give a little technical background into some of the idiosyncrasies of the site’s technology (pipeline, etc). Hopefully this will help organizers we able to better use the site for their events, and also maybe generate some Open Space conversation on how to improve the site overall!
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