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HOSTING AND DEPLOYMENT

Hugo Deploy

You can upload your site to GCS, S3, or Azure using the Hugo CLI.

You can use the “hugo deploy” command to upload your site directly to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket, an AWS S3 bucket, and/or an Azure Storage container.

Assumptions

  • You have completed the Quick Start or have a Hugo website you are ready to deploy and share with the world.
  • You have an account with the service provider (Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure) that you want to deploy to.
  • You have authenticated.
    • Google Cloud: Install the CLI and run gcloud auth login.
    • AWS: Install the CLI and run aws configure.
    • Azure: Install the CLI and run az login.
    • NOTE: Each service supports alternatives for authentication, including using environment variables. See here for more details.

Create a bucket to deploy to

Create a storage bucket to deploy your site to. If you want your site to be public, be sure to configure the bucket to be publicly readable.

Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

Follow the GCS instructions for how to create a bucket.

AWS S3

Follow the AWS instructions for how to create a bucket.

Azure Storage

Follow the Azure instructions for how to create a storage container.

Configure the deployment

In the configuration file for your site, add a [deployment] section with one or more [[deployment.targets]] section, one for each deployment target. Here’s a detailed example:

[deployment]
# By default, files are uploaded in an arbitrary order.
# Files that match the regular expressions in the "Order" list
# will be uploaded first, in the listed order.
order = [".jpg$", ".gif$"]


[[deployment.targets]]
# An arbitrary name for this target.
name = "mydeployment"
# The Go Cloud Development Kit URL to deploy to. Examples:
# GCS; see https://gocloud.dev/howto/blob/#gcs
# URL = "gs://<Bucket Name>"

# S3; see https://gocloud.dev/howto/blob/#s3
# For S3-compatible endpoints, see https://gocloud.dev/howto/blob/#s3-compatible
# URL = "s3://<Bucket Name>?region=<AWS region>"

# Azure Blob Storage; see https://gocloud.dev/howto/blob/#azure
# URL = "azblob://$web"

# You can use a "prefix=" query parameter to target a subfolder of the bucket:
# URL = "gs://<Bucket Name>?prefix=a/subfolder/"

# If you are using a CloudFront CDN, deploy will invalidate the cache as needed.
cloudFrontDistributionID = <ID>

# Optionally, you can include or exclude specific files.
# See https://godoc.org/github.com/gobwas/glob#Glob for the glob pattern syntax.
# If non-empty, the pattern is matched against the local path.
# All paths are matched against in their filepath.ToSlash form.
# If exclude is non-empty, and a local or remote file's path matches it, that file is not synced.
# If include is non-empty, and a local or remote file's path does not match it, that file is not synced.
# As a result, local files that don't pass the include/exclude filters are not uploaded to remote,
# and remote files that don't pass the include/exclude filters are not deleted.
# include = "**.html" # would only include files with ".html" suffix
# exclude = "**.{jpg, png}" # would exclude files with ".jpg" or ".png" suffix


# [[deployment.matchers]] configure behavior for files that match the Pattern.
# See https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/ for pattern syntax.
# Pattern searching is stopped on first match.

# Samples:

[[deployment.matchers]]
# Cache static assets for 1 year.
pattern = "^.+\\.(js|css|svg|ttf)$"
cacheControl = "max-age=31536000, no-transform, public"
gzip = true

[[deployment.matchers]]
pattern = "^.+\\.(png|jpg)$"
cacheControl = "max-age=31536000, no-transform, public"
gzip = false

[[deployment.matchers]]
# Set custom content type for /sitemap.xml
pattern = "^sitemap\\.xml$"
contentType = "application/xml"
gzip = true

[[deployment.matchers]]
pattern = "^.+\\.(html|xml|json)$"
gzip = true

Deploy

To deploy to a target:

hugo deploy [--target=<target name>, defaults to first target]

Hugo will identify and apply any local changes that need to be reflected to the remote target. You can use --dryRun to see the changes without applying them, or --confirm to be prompted before making changes.

See hugo help deploy for more command-line options.

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