joobypm/tiger-tail repository overview

⁠TigerTail Microblog

A minimal microblog service built in Go with PostgreSQL and Redis support.

⁠Features

• 🗄️ PostgreSQL persistence
• ⚡ Redis caching
• 🔒 Basic Auth for admin post creation
• 🏥 Kubernetes health checks (/livez and /readyz)
• 🐳 Docker Compose for local development
• 📦 Helm chart for production deployments

⁠Quick Start

# Pull the image
docker pull yourusername/tigertail:latest

# Run with Docker Compose
docker-compose up --build

⁠API Endpoints

• GET /posts - Fetch posts (cached in Redis)
• POST /posts - Create new post (requires Basic Auth)
• GET /livez - Liveness probe
• GET /readyz - Readiness probe

⁠Environment Variables

Required environment variables:

• POSTGRES_HOST - PostgreSQL host
• POSTGRES_PORT - PostgreSQL port
• POSTGRES_USER - PostgreSQL user
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD - PostgreSQL password
• POSTGRES_DB - PostgreSQL database name
• REDIS_HOST - Redis host
• REDIS_PORT - Redis port
• ADMIN_USERNAME - Basic Auth username
• ADMIN_PASSWORD - Basic Auth password

⁠Documentation

For detailed documentation, architecture overview, and FAQs, visit our GitHub repository⁠.

⁠License

MIT License