Open Source
Our website cloudfrl.com heavily relies on open source projects and software developed & maintained by the community.
We’re obviously very grateful for all developers contributing to those projects.
In addition to the free and open source software, such as our CMS ‘Ghost,’ we’re also using open source software available trough a subscription, such as Red Hat (mostly Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Red Hat’s subscriptions and implementation of ’open source’ are seen as somewhat controversial, since they announced that forking RHEL’s source code became prohibited earlier in 2023. This basically knocked the lights out for distributions such as Alma Linux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux. Having nearly full compatibility with RHEL, but without requiring a subscription was and still is one of their main selling points. However, we’re not the ones to judge, because we‘re using propietary software too. We use whatever software that does the job best. That’s often open source software, but occasionaly proprietary software as well.
Nevertheless, we try to contribute to the open source community as well. In addition to the articles and guides we dedicate to open source software, we also keep our forks of certain projects available publically. We have public repositories available at GitHub, Quay.io, BitBucket and GitLab.
GitHub
We are a verified organization on GitHub, which serves as our platform of choice. The community active on GitHub is the largest by far and there isn’t going any time into managing and maintaining the server itself.
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Quay.io
We’re storing some container images on Quay.io, however those aren’t particularly useful. We mostly use containerized environments (Podman and Docker) for development, but are exploring the possibility of our website delivery using OpenShift or Kubernetes.
BitBucket
This is mostly a replication of our GitHub. If you use BitBucket personally, it’s easier to fork a repository from BitBucket.
GitLab
Our Gitlab Community Server is down and quite frankly, we put in all the way down on the priority list. cloudfrl.com consists of a small team of enthusiasts whom are determined to grow our website and community and hosting our own GitLab server has proven to take too much valuable time away from achieving our primary goal.
The server appeared to be still up, but it refused any SSH connection to it for no apparent reason. We shut the server down to prevent unnecessary invoices and to not expose it to the internet if it isn’t working anyway.
We’ll update this information as soon as there are any changes.
If you want to see a certain open source project featured on cloudfrl.com, we’re definitely interested in doing so. Reach out to us using any of the available communication options listed on our contact page.