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Tidy up first elfhosted blog post

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Signed-off-by: David Young <davidy@funkypenguin.co.nz>
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title: Introducing the ElfHosted experiment
title: Kubectl deploy ElfHosted
description: Every journey has a beginning. This is the beginning of the ElfHosted journey
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@@ -61,18 +61,18 @@ Our original appbox platform invested in a custom user dashboard, which handled:
1. Account setup and payment
2. App install/uninstall/restart
This ended up being a big investment, and an ongoing source of frustration[^1]. Since we want to iterate ElfHosted quickly, we need an "off-the-shelf" billing system which will "just work". I looked into Shopify, Woocommerce, and several other open-source billing systems.
This ended up being a big investment, and an ongoing source of frustration[^1]. Since we want to iterate ElfHosted quickly, we need an "off-the-shelf" billing system which will "*just work*". I looked into Shopify, Woocommerce, and several other open-source billing systems.
My philosophy here is that I want as little as possible to do with billing - it's soul-sucking, anti-fun to debug why customer **X** was charged **$Y** instead of **$Z** :rage:!
My philosophy here is that I want as little as possible to do with billing - it's soul-sucking, anti-fun to debug why customer **X** was charged **\$Y** instead of **\$Z** :rage:!
I settled on the pragmatic approach of using [Woocommerce](https://woocommerce.com/marketplace-sale/) on Wordpress. It's extensible enough for the customization I'll need for service provision, but it's polished / supported enough to handle all the weird edge cases a billing system needs. I paid for the Subscriptions and Bundles addons, after doing some rudimentary testing to confirm that I could get a webhook sent on a user creation / subscription event.
### SSO
### Single Sign On (SSO)
One of the killer features of the appbox service was our ability to secure otherwise-insecure applications (*[Gatus](https://github.com/TwiN/gatus), for example*) behind a layer of authentication, in this case driven by Traefik Forward Auth and Auth0. I needed to replace the Auth0 integration with _something_, and in the spirit of quick iteration, I discovered two Wordpress plugins which will allow Wordpress to act as a OIDC authentication server (*sign in with Wordpress*):
* [This one](https://wordpress.org/plugins/miniorange-oauth-20-server/), which is highly polished but the free version is intended to upsell you to an expensive paid version
*[ This other one](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid-connect-server/), which is very bare-bones, and requires editing Wordpress's config to get it going.
* [This other one](https://wordpress.org/plugins/openid-connect-server/), which is very bare-bones, and requires editing Wordpress's config to get it going.
Again, in the interests of expediency, I'm starting with the polished-but-naggy extension!