Brief

queer.party runs Mastodon v3.2.1 with minor customisations to available themes and functionality. The code which generates these customisations is posted at https://commit.pup.cloud/maff/queer.party

Current Infrastructure

Running on three Alpine Linux VMs with Docker in Swarm mode, queer.party consists of the following.

• Portainer stack - for swarm management and health-check APIs
• Database - Postgres (postgres:9.6-alpine)
• Web (2x), Streaming, Sidekiq queue runners (4x) - Mastodon (maffsie/qp-mastodon)
• Task and cache storage - Redis (redis:alpine)
• CDN - Minio (minio/minio:latest)
• Front-end - Traefik (traefik:alpine)
• Database read-only replica - Postgres (postgres:9.6-alpine)
• Backup handler (compression, encryption, upload) - Duplicati (linuxserver/duplicati)

Roadmap

Future improvements to queer.party, and any longer-term plans, are listed below. Any entries listed with a 🥧 emoji are "pie-in-the-sky" and unlikely to be realised.

• Re-add elasticsearch 🥧
• HA Postgres setup 🥧
• HA load-balancer setup 🥧
• Switch to Kubernetes 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧