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Supabase is an awesome tool for building (CRUD) applications in no time. For those who are not familiar with Supabase, it is an open-source Firebase alternative with a focus on privacy and security. Compared to other tools, Supabase is focused on the Postgres database and provides a lot of features out of the box, like authentication, authorization, and real-time subscriptions. Also their tech stack appeals to me, as they are using Go, Rust, Elixir and (sadly) Node.js for all their services.¹

I admit it. I like self-hosting. I like the idea of being able to control every aspect of my infrastructure. It was only consequent to also self-host my blog. This article describes my odyssey and why I ended up letting Cloudflare do the hosting.

In the beginning - there was a repository. As we all know, the repository is the truth. When the time came for deploying the blog, I already had a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster at hand so the obvious choice was to containerize the web page and host it there. I wrote a simple Dockerfile with a multi-stage build, just like this:

This is a follow up post to “Joining libvirt VMs and Podman container in a common network”. Therefore I won’t cover all the basics again and how to configure libvirt because nothing’s changed on that side.

Podman 4.0

Podman 4.0 comes with a completely new network stack replacing the previous CNI stack:

• Netavark
• Aardvark

There are great resources that explain the backgrounds of both tools and I don’t think I could describe it better than the folks implementing it :smile: so if you’re interested have a look at the aforementioned article or the release post.