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Not sure bitbucket pipelines are mentioned here. But for free I manage to commit Hugo source files to a private git repository, generate the static files by spinning up a docker container and generating them using Hugo and finally rsyncing the static output to my Webserver. All for free. You only get 50 minutes of time now (for free) in the docker instance but for simple continuous deployment cases like mine it’s very effective.

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You might want to look at Gitlab if you want to drop the need for a web server. Their pages support supports Hugo much better than GitHub (which leans toward Jekyll), and is pretty well documented.

Add Netlify and it will continue to be free. I use Hugo as well, Netlify compiles Hugo on it's own, so I don't need workflows, but it is cool to have them.

The last time I tried using pipelines, it wouldn't let me use any arbitrary Docker image, I had to use one of the Atlassian "blessed" images. :/

Why is that better than generating static locally? Seems like a lot of fiddling for no benefit.

It’s fully automated. I do a commit and push from any machine that I have cloned the repo to and it gets published automatically.

Now I don’t need to download Hugo, remember the Hugo commands, remember my web server login details, etc. I think it’s a lot less fiddling as all I need to remember now is how to add a file to a git repo to get a post published.

Don't you miss out on Hugo's archetypes doing it that way, or at least need the templates locally? Also you shouldn't need your web server login details for rsync... Hey whatever works, it just seems like substantially more work to me.

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