Smoke Test — First Post from Production

Verifying the production stack: CI pipeline, container registry, proxy, and database all the way down to the markdown renderer.

Today the site went live at evilgeniuslabs.ca. This post is purely a smoke test — if you're reading it, the stack works.

What shipped today

GitLab container registry at registry.glyphdeck.org, TLS-terminated at the public nginx proxy.
CI pipeline that builds a self-contained Docker image on every tag and pushes it to the registry.
A declarative docker-compose.yml on the app server that pulls :latest from the registry.
Outer nginx vhost for this domain with a Let's Encrypt cert and an HTTP → HTTPS redirect.
EF Core migrations applied automatically on first boot; identity roles seeded; admin account created.

The renderer

This paragraph exercises italics, bold, both, and inline code. A short snippet to make sure Prism lights up:

public record SmokeTestResult(
    string Component,
    bool Passed,
    TimeSpan Duration
);

var results = new[]
{
    new SmokeTestResult("registry", true, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(42)),
    new SmokeTestResult("proxy",    true, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(18)),
    new SmokeTestResult("app",      true, TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(7)),
};

Quotes render as panels with the left accent rail. If this looks right, the blockquote styling survived the Markdig pipeline.

Image

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Tables

Component	Status	Notes
Registry	🟢	`registry.glyphdeck.org/eg-projects/evilgeniuslabs.ca:latest`
Proxy	🟢	TLS, 301 redirect, `client_max_body_size` tuned
App	🟢	ASP.NET Core 10, Postgres 17
DNS	🟢	apex + www resolve to the proxy

Pipeline sketch

flowchart LR
    A[git tag v0.1.x] --> B[GitLab CI runner]
    B --> C[docker build]
    C --> D[push to registry]
    D --> E[app server: pull]
    E --> F[compose up -d]
    F --> G[healthz 200 OK]

Images

Wiki and books are already shipped. Comments work. Next up: RSS, sitemap, OG tags — and a proper first real post.