Automated deployment with CircleCI

tips & tricks
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I wrote up a little tutorial that shows how to set up a Hugo site with GitHub and CircleCI. In this particular instance, I’m deploying to Aerobatic, but of course, you could deploy anywhere. Here’s what my circle.yml file looks like.

dependencies:
  pre:
    - wget https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.18/hugo_0.18-64bit.deb
    - sudo dpkg -i hugo*.deb
    - npm install -g aerobatic-cli

deployment:
  master:
    branch: master
    commands:
      - git clone https://github.com/rakuishi/hugo-zen.git themes/hugo-zen
      - hugo --theme=hugo-zen --baseURL https://__baseurl__ --buildDrafts
      - aero deploy -d public

And, in case you’re interested, here’s the complete blog post.

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Feel free to add your tutorial(s) to the press section in the docs.

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Thanks for the suggestion. Will do!

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We’ve also posted them on our Hugo page: https://www.thenewdynamic.org/tool/hugo/

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I’m a Developer Evangelist over at CircleCI, so props for this post. :wink:

My personal site is built with Hugo and I do something similar, but using a script and an environment variable: https://github.com/felicianotech/feliciano.tech/blob/master/circle.yml

I’m happy to see other Hugo users using CircleCI. Great combo.