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26 Jun 2025 at 00:34:13 +01:00

I spent a month repeatedly building my website in Docker, and now have horrors to share.

I've got a problem.

My website (the one you're reading right now) is mainly served by a single Rust binary. For far too long now, every time I wanted to make a change, I would:

  1. Build a new statically linked binary (with --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl)
  2. Copy it to my server
  3. Restart the website

This is... not ideal.

So instead, I'd like to switch to deploying my website with containers (be it Docker, Kubernetes, or otherwise), matching the vast majority of software deployed any time in the last decade.

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