What's the thing with Wercker?

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Time for a dumb question again:

I noticed that the Hugo community generally seems to prefer Wercker for automatic deployment. After having read the Wercker documentation, I actually wonder where the advantage lies. Wercker does not seem to be much more than just an external service which does exactly the same as a post-commit hook would do, right?

Can anyone help me understand why I would do that?

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Hmm. We’re talking about tools and not necessarily methods, so “why should I use this” is kind of a tough question to answer. That said, I can tell you a little bit about how I use it and maybe that will help…

  • I have a group of semi-non-technical users at work who are charged with updating a doc site I built in Hugo. Currently, they just use the GitHub UI to update content and it builds with Wercker.
  • Because of the tutorials floating around Hugo, I opted for Wercker because I needed a step in for S3 since the site is only for our network. This was very easy to do.
  • I like the pipeline on Wercker because I’m also adding an image-resize step using Gulp.

Everything above can be done via other means, of course. For example, Netflify abstracts all of that into a single commit. Gitlab pages also supports Hugo without any extra configuration. There are tons of options.

HTH

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Ah, thank you,

so for me as a tech-savvy user there’s no real advantage in learning another tool. :slightly_smiling:

That helps me indeed.

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I use CircleCi for some deployment. And for me it is:

  • Automated deployments on commits.
  • Visual “failed to deploy” badge if it fails
  • Email alerts

I could probably build some custom stuff myself, but why?

See

For one example.

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I would probably build some custom stuff myself, but why?

Hence my question. I just aimed at understanding what you people use it for.

I’m one of those guys. I don’t care about shiny badges as long as I (as the only one who should care when my code breaks) get a notification, preferably via e-mail. The disadvantage of relying on external services (which can be shut down and/or broken any time) would probably just outweigh the advantages for me.

I can see the use of a self-hosted CI system, especially when you regularly have to compile stuff (I usually work with languages I have to compile). That’s just not the case for irregular blogging.

Thanks for your example. :slight_smile: