Docs tutorial: Build, Test, and Deploy your Hugo site with GitLab
Although it's easy to build and host most static site generators with GitLab Pages, the documentation is limited, especially for users unfamiliar with CI/CD.
As organizations embrace static site generators for their documentation needs, Hugo is emerging as a top choice for its speed, versatility, and reliability.
A step-by-step Hugo tutorial would help customers go beyond using GitLab just as a repo. The pipeline to build, test, and deploy a Hugo site is relatively simple and can be enhanced as the customer's confidence increases. Once the customer is using additional features, they are more likely to move to either a paid plan or upgrade their subscription.
In short, Hugo is a great example for learning some CI/CD basics.
The tutorial would cover:
- Preparing your Hugo site
- Adding the
baseURL
- Adding a
.gitignore
file
- Adding the
- Creating your pipeline
- Using the Hugo image
- Understanding the
Pages
job - Including a test
- Deploying your site to Pages
- Configuring Pages
- Viewing your site
The tutorial assumes users already have a Hugo site in a git repository, and a GitLab account. However, the introduction would include signposts to relevant material and a sample project.