balve-strapi

Headless CMS for Garmeres, built on Strapi 5. Provides content APIs consumed by the website.

• Database: SQLite, backed up to S3 on a schedule
• Media uploads: Hetzner Object Storage (S3-compatible)
• Runtime: Node 20, deployed as a container on Kubernetes

Local development

cp .env.example .env
# Fill in S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID and S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
npm install
npm run develop

Admin panel: http://localhost:1337/admin

Environment variables

See .env.example. The S3 variables are required for media uploads to work.

Docker

The image is automatically built and pushed to ghcr.io/garmeres/balve-strapi:latest on every push to main.

Deployment

Deployed to Kubernetes via Helm chart in balve-k8s. ArgoCD handles continuous delivery.