Gitignore.io Open Source System Architecture

Building A Service On Great Open Source Tools #

I’ve been working on gitignore.io as a side project since February 10th, 2013 and the service has slowly grown to host over 250 gitignore templates. I finally got a chance to create a diagram of gitignore.io’s architecture to show how I maintain an extremely low cost service built using amazing open source and free tools.

1. GitHub Free OSS - Source code repository
   • Source - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/
   • Issues - https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/issues/
2. Travis CI Free OSS - Continuous integration and unit testing
   • Status - https://travis-ci.org/joeblau/gitignore.io/
3. Heroku Staging Free Single Dyno - Public facing staging app for online testing of latest build
   • Internal URL - https://gitignore-io-staging.herokuapp.com/
   • External URL - https://staging.gitignore.io/
4. Heorku Production Free Single Dyno - Public facing production app
   • Internal URL - https://gitignore-io-production.herokuapp.com/
   • External URL - https://www.gitignore.io/
5. CloudFlare Free Website - Content Distribution Network
   • CDN - https://www.cloudflare.com/features-cdn/
   • HTTP/2 - https://www.cloudflare.com/http2/
   • SSL - https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/
6. IWantMyName $49 - Domain name provider
   • Domain - gitignore.io
7. User Web Request
   • Web Client visting https://www.gitignore.com/
   • gi curl alias visting https://www.gitignore.com/api/

All of these free tools allow gitignore.io to run as an open source project serving 500,000 requests and 30,000 unique visitors per month.