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This blog is built using Hugo to generate the static content, Github Pages for hosting, Github Actions for continous deployment, and Cloudflare for DNS. You can find the source on my GitHub.
Hugo
Nothing really notable here, I needed something that could quickly take markdown content and generate a nice static website and Hugo fit that purpose. There are plenty of others out there but Hugo is written in go and the templating language I am already pretty familiar with. Learning Hugo has been pretty painless, there are lots of youtube vidoes available and the docs they provider are pretty decent.
The layout is a lightly modified version of the nostyleplease theme.
Hosting & DNS
Hosting is done via Github Pages so I won’t go into much detail here, basically there is a github repo with a branch that contains the statically generated content. DNS configuration was a bit tricky, GitHub provides docs on setting a custom dns name but I found with Cloudflare I’m unable to check the enforce HTTPS option. I was able to work around this by setting up a redirect rule in Cloudflare
GitHub Actions
There is a GitHub workflow that triggers action on pushes to the main branch to rebuild the website and update the gh-pages branch of the repository with the static content. There is a really useful GitHub Action specifically for doing this that handles most of the heavy lifting simply called actions-hugo
Final Thoughs
For setting up a simple static website I can’t imagine I will soon run into any limitations with Hugo, my needs are pretty simple - an easy to use tool that can take me from markdown to static website with minimal fuss.