Everything Should Be Virtual

Everything Should Be Virtual is a technical blog covering virtualization, cloud technologies, automation, and DevOps. Part of Methodical Cloud.

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Tech Stack

• Static Site Generator: Jekyll with Minimal Mistakes theme
• Hosting: Cloudflare Pages
• CI: GitHub Actions (ruby/setup-ruby + cloudflare/wrangler-action)

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Deployment

Push to main triggers a full build and deploy automatically.

develop → PR → main → GitHub Actions → Cloudflare Pages (everythingshouldbevirtual.com)

Manual deploy (if needed):

bundle exec jekyll build
wrangler pages deploy _site --project-name everythingshouldbevirtual --branch main

GitHub Secrets required:

• CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID
• CLOUDFLARE_PAGES_TOKEN

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Local Development

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

Requires Ruby 3.x. The site builds with Ruby 3.3 in CI.

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Writing Posts

Add a file to _posts/ with the format YYYY-MM-DD-title.md:

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title: "Post Title"
date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS -0500
categories:
  - Automation
tags:
  - ansible
toc: true
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Drafts go in _drafts/ and are excluded from production builds.

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Author: Larry Smith Jr. | Last Updated: April 2026