GoBlog - Go Based Photography Blogging Software

This is my take on a simple photography blog platform that I am using for my blog sites.

Note: This software is a work in progress. You can see it action here:

https://tryingadventure.com

https://diytinytrailer.com

Notable features

1. Supports libvips for image processing
2. Uses S3 backed storage, but does not expose the s3 or cloudfront backend. (This may or may not be a good idea)
3. Uses MongoDB
4. Uses Redis for storing sessions
5. Features image management interface to upload, extract Exif information.
6. Uses Markdown language for the editing environment, just like you would in github. The reason for this is that I did not want to incorporate a clunky WSIWYG editor that generates HTML differently every new release. All text is store as markdown.
7. Fast! The software is written in golang and compiles to a single binary. Maybe the next version will be in Rust...

Instructions

Running this on MacOS, you need to install libvips for the image processing library:

brew install libvips

Install Mongodb

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-community@4.4

Install Redis

brew update
brew install redis

Install the maxmind geoip databases. This is needed for tracking users and session reports

Once the prequisites are installed, create a script below. Substitute your redis, mongodb, and S3 credentials for the application.

CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW=-Xpreprocessor \
AWS_PROFILE="xxxx" \
S3_BUCKET="xxxx" \
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" \
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" \
AWS_REGION="xx-xxx-x" \
CACHE_URI="host.docker.internal:6379" \
DB_URI="mongodb://host.docker.internal:27017" \
ENV="dev" \
ADMIN_USER="someuser" \
ADMIN_PASSWORD="somepassword" \
SITE="somewhere.com" \
SESSION_TIMEOUT="86400" \
MONGO_DATABASE="blogdata" \
REDIS_DB="redisdb" \
go run blog.go

Installation Instructions

go build -o blog blog.go

Docker

docker build .

Kubernetes

In the helm directory are two helm charts for the sites I use.

Jenkins

There is a sample jenkins file which can be adapted to your tastes

Customization

There are two template directories which contain the site templates that I manage. You can customize these for your desired needs. You can also copy them and then edit them. Just make sure your docker build includes the new directory and that you set up the environment configuration to point to this directory. You can see how this is accomplished in the Docker file.