Redirects as Code: Managing Short Links the GitOps Way

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Most URL shorteners are black boxes. You log in through a web UI, create a link, and hope the service stays running. When something breaks — a link stops working, a campaign URL points to the wrong page, someone accidentally deleted a redirect — there’s no audit trail, no rollback, no way to know who changed what and when.

vanityURLs takes a different approach: your redirects live in a plain text file, in a Git repository, deployed via Cloudflare Pages. This is GitOps applied to URL management.

Tutorial on vanityURLs

Redirects as Code: Managing Short Links the GitOps Way