Since its early days, eBay Motors Blog has been a go-to destination for automotive enthusiasts. From how-to guides to deep dives into car culture, it’s a place where gearheads and casual readers alike find value and community.

What is the eBay Motors Blog?

The eBay Motors Blog is a WordPress-powered site built on PHP, offering editorial content that supports and complements the eBay Motors marketplace. It’s popular. Really popular. So popular, in fact, that even though PHP wasn’t officially supported on eBay’s infrastructure, the blog earned a special exception.

A Rare Approval, Straight from the Top

eBay’s CEO and Head of North American Marketing personally approved the continued use of WordPress for this blog. It was a rare decision, made to preserve the blog’s impact and keep its content available to millions of readers.

How Space-Rocket Helped

After Michael successfully delivered another WordPress blog site for eBay in record time, the company extended his contract to lead a critical migration of the eBay Motors Blog from its legacy Red Hat hosting to eBay’s new infrastructure on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), part of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). He worked independently while staying in close coordination with eBay’s DevOps team. The goal: make the transition seamless and invisible to end users.

Michael set up both staging and production environments, rebuilt the Docker containers from scratch, and ensured all content remained intact and performant on the new stack.

Security Was Non-Negotiable

To get the green light from eBay’s DevSecOps team, Michael had to meet a series of rigorous security requirements:

• DAST scans for runtime vulnerabilities
• SAST scans for code integrity
• A fully locked-down Nginx configuration following OWASP best practices

He didn’t just pass, he aced it.

CI/CD Powered by Jenkins

Michael used Jenkins to automate deployment pipelines and testing, providing confidence in every release and enabling rapid iteration on staging before the final rollout to production.

Launched Ahead of Schedule (With Pizza)

Despite the complexity, the entire project was delivered faster than expected, with zero downtime, no production bugs, and full stakeholder sign-off. It was such a success, eBay threw a pizza party to celebrate.

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