A noticeboard for your content

What it's about

A content management system (CMS) is a noticeboard in the hallway: anyone with something to say pins up a note without rebuilding the wall. First you decide whether you need one at all. If so, you set it up on your server, reachable through a secret passage.

What you'll learn

• when a CMS is worth it and when it isn't
• three levels: texts in the project, a noticeboard through your logbook, your own CMS
• how a program like Strapi runs in a container
• what a tunnel is and why the admin area shouldn't be public

How you go about it

1. Answer three questions: how often, who, how many entries?
2. Choose the simplest level that does the job.
3. For your own CMS: take a photo, set up the container, store secrets safely.
4. Create the admin account through the tunnel and make the first entry.

Done when

• the container cms is running on your server. If you deliberately decide against your own CMS, you may skip this mission.