Public traffic terminates TLS at the Pangolin VPS, which then proxies to the control-plane nodes over https:443 — the pattern every other k3s-backed Pangolin resource follows — so the cluster needs its own valid certificate for the production hostnames, not just the staging one. Add www.bluecapstrategies.com and bluecapstrategies.com to the tls block as bluecap-website-tls. Safe to do before cutover, and deliberately done now: letsencrypt-prod solves DNS-01 through Cloudflare, so issuance only needs a temporary TXT record in the zone. No A record has to point at the cluster and the live WordPress site is untouched. The Cloudflare token was extended to cover the zone on 2026-10-09. Both hostnames are listed because the canonical-host decision is still open; holding a cert for each keeps either choice available, and the redirect is configured separately. Pangolin's edge certificate is HTTP-01 and cannot be pre-issued this way; it is obtained on the first HTTPS request after DNS moves.
BlueCap Strategies Website
Static marketing site for BlueCap Strategies, built with Astro and deployed to a k3s homelab cluster via GitOps (ArgoCD).
Stack
- Astro 5 — static output (
output: "static"), no runtime JS framework. - Content Collections (Markdown) — page copy lives in
src/content/(services, focus-areas, pages, insights), validated by a Zod SEO schema at build time. - nginx (Alpine) serves the built
dist/from a multi-stage Docker image. - ArgoCD + Kustomize (
k8s/) reconcile the deployment; images are published to GHCR by CI.
Local development
npm install
npm run dev # dev server at http://localhost:4321
npm run build # astro check (typecheck) + astro build → dist/
npm run preview # serve the production build
npm run seo:lint # structural SEO checks over dist/ (run after build)
npm run test:e2e # Playwright end-to-end tests
Copy .env.example to .env and fill in values as needed (site URL, contact form endpoint,
analytics keys). Never commit .env.
Editing content
Page copy is Markdown with typed frontmatter — no code changes needed to edit words:
src/content/services/*.md— service detail pagessrc/content/focus-areas/*.md— focus-area detail pagessrc/content/pages/*.md— standalone long-form pages (e.g. About)src/content/insights/*.md— blog/insights posts
Frontmatter is enforced by the Zod schema in src/content.config.ts (e.g. description must be
120–158 chars), so the build fails fast on SEO violations. The .md files are build-time
source: Astro compiles them to static HTML in dist/. The Markdown itself is never served.
Project layout
src/ Astro pages, layouts, components, content collections, styles
public/ Static assets served as-is (images, robots.txt, healthz)
scripts/ Build tooling (seo-lint.mjs)
tests/ Playwright e2e specs
deploy/ nginx.conf for the runtime image
k8s/ Kustomize manifests (namespace, deployment, service, ingress, configmap)
docs/ Committed engineering records — ADRs, deployment, SEO/AEO, deviations
Dockerfile Multi-stage build → nginx image containing only dist/
planning/ (git-ignored) holds working docs — content inventories, parity checklists, and the
original rebuild brief. See docs/adr/ for the decision record.
Deployment
Push to main → GitHub Actions runs the quality gates, builds and pushes a <git-sha>-tagged
image to GHCR, and updates the image tag in k8s/. ArgoCD reconciles the change to k3s. GitHub
never receives cluster credentials. See docs/gitops-deployment-strategy.md.