MephistoaD/hugo-deployment-scripts

automated deployment and redeployment for hugo pages on ubuntu server

Hugo deployment scripts

Table of Contents

• Main idea
• Usage
• Continous delivery
• Usecase

This project has it’s origin in some quick and dirty scripts I wrote to roll out changes made on hugo websites in a quick and uncomplicated way.

Main idea

The main idea is to run the deploy.sh in a linux container, or any other kind of Debian server and to let it setup the hugo site completely without the need to touch the container again.

Usage

Simply run:

wget https://github.com/MarcMocker/hugo-deployment-scripts/raw/main/deploy.sh && bash deploy.sh

in the cli of the container.

The script is going to ask you for the upstream repository with the hugo project (clone > SSH) and guides you through any further steps if necessary.

Works even with private repositorys.

Continous delivery

Moreover the script sets up a crontab (in etc/crontab) to check every two minutes for changes on the upstream repository and rebuilds the site if necessary.

Usecase

If your server is located behind a proxy and hidden from outside by a firewall and Github actions cannot reach it. Else Github actions might be more suitable and less resource intense for you.