Cloud-native website for a therapy practice

Context

An occupational therapy practice in Germany ran a WordPress site on shared hosting. The goal: a maintainable, fast site with reproducible deployments.

Problem and constraints

• Keep the search rankings the old site had earned.
• Releases without any manual step.
• Limited access to the old hosting, which gates data recovery.

Architecture decisions and trade-offs

• A new containerised Next.js site replacing the old WordPress one.
• Kubernetes manifests organised with Kustomize (shared base, per-environment overlays) and a separate monitoring layer.
• A gated migration: recover what exists, inventory it, then transform it; an SEO baseline is captured before any switch-over.

Security and delivery

• Images published to a container registry and deployed by Argo CD.
• 22 tagged releases, the latest being v1.4.0.
• Monitoring in place, with a tested e-mail alert.

Results and current state

• Site in production on Kubernetes.
• Migration of the old site in progress: the first gate is waiting for full access to the old hosting.