Bread Pitt Internal Staging

August 4, 2026

Bread Pitt now has an isolated internal staging site on sites01 for reviewing changes before public deployment.

Tags: Abbey Root • Infrastructure • Bread Pitt

Bread Pitt Internal Staging

Summary

Bread Pitt now has a working internal staging site at:

http://breadpitt.sites01.home.arpa/

The site is hosted on sites01 in its own nginx virtual host and release directory. It is separate from both the Abbey Root website and Bread Pitt’s public GitHub Pages deployment.

Accomplishments

• Added a dedicated Bread Pitt site definition to the sites01 inventory.
• Provisioned the nginx virtual host and release structure through Ansible.
• Built and deployed the current Bread Pitt Astro site.
• Activated release 20260804T225248Z.
• Added an internal Technitium DNS alias pointing the staging hostname to sites01.home.arpa.
• Verified the home page, recipe index, health endpoint, DNS resolution, and Abbey Root regression.
• Confirmed the Ansible role remains idempotent.
• Restricted Umami analytics to the public Bread Pitt domains so staging visits are not counted.

Lessons Learned

The first archive extraction failed because the remote server lacked a supported extraction command. Since release activation was a separate command, it was still possible to point current at the empty release.

The site was rolled back immediately and redeployed successfully after validating the extracted files.

This should become a standard Abbey deployment workflow that prepares and validates a complete release before it can activate the new current symlink.

Next Steps

• Add a safe internal static-site deployment workflow to Abbey.
• Commit the Abbey Root staging configuration and session documentation.
• Commit the Bread Pitt analytics restriction in the Bread Pitt repository.
• Begin using the internal staging site for Bread Pitt content reviews.