Static Infrastructure Status with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

Technology fails – at least sometimes

Providing users with a central point of information is vital in particular when your usual ways of communication (e.g. your website) are broken. When disaster strikes, updates must be published quickly and with little effort. Credentials must be known, templates available and the full service inventory and its interdependencies externally documented.

While there are dedicated services, it can also be done using Jekyll and its data and collections features on GitHub Pages. In this FOSDEM Lightning Talk I explain the approach we implemented for the DARIAH-DE Research Infrastructure services.

See also the Blog Post.