I’d recommend Forgejo/Gitea as others have mentioned or https://sourcehut.org (instance available at https://sr.ht/)

Which changes, care to elaborate?

I stopped reading when I read “Electron”.

I used Heroic a few times and it’s absolute garbage because it runs Electron.

They said they will offer these 2 versions side-by-side, but mark my words, a few months/years they will go with the Electron version and kill the GTK version.

why not gzip?

If you own a domain name you can use the DNS-01 challenge instead of hosting a web server to serve the challenge response.

With DNS-01 it will add a TXT record to your DNS zones and check if the record exists to verify that you own the domain and then issue the certificate.

Depending on which tool you use, they usually support DuckDNS and some other free DDNS providers. If you have your domain on a registrar, chances are that it’s also supported.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I ended up configuring my CI pipeline to build a Caddy docker image that ships with my website files. The pipeline is also publishing the container image to the Codeberg registry and I apply the new image repo and tag to the Caddy Helm chart I found on ArtifactHub.

The only thing that’s left is to setup the CI to automatically restart the pod when a new image is pushed, so it will always have the latest version.

It was easier than expected and I had a few issues like my stylesheets not being applied and image files not rendering, but it was solved by changing the pathType field on the ingress configuration to Prefix.

I don’t like Cloudflare and I try to steer away from them.

Using Codeberg/GitHub/GitLab pages was an option as well, but I wanted to have it self-hosted so I have more flexibility and I get to use and customize Caddy to my liking.

That’s a nice suggestion. I guess I can make the CI build a Docker image containing my website’s files and then have a plugin for it to restart the pod that serves the website so it fetches the latest image.

How is this different than mounting the folder with the static website using hostPath?

I was looking for it as well. I want to host the website using Caddy because I have a lot of config options available and I can fine tune it for my use cases.

I read a tutorial about using a Hugo Docker image, but then the hosting would be done by Hugo and not Caddy itself.

I’m not using k8s just to host my website, I have other services on it as well.

I know it’s overkill for small stuff, but I’m running k3s and not k8s (so it’s a lightweight engine). The reason I’m doing this is for learning purposes, I want to learn more about k8s and thought I could do an experiment with it on a VPS.

I plan on renting another VPS and adding another node to the cluster, as it’s pretty cheap (Hetzner ARM server costs around 3.8 EUR without VAT with 2 vCPUs and 4GB RAM). For example, it’s much more cheaper than the VPS I have on Vultr that has 1GB RAM and 1 vCPU.

Don’t you have to specify the compression algorithm when extracting? I always use tar -xzf for gzip files and if I remove -z it just fails.