How I Host Static Sites With Automatic Deploy on Green

Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:19:44 +0000

This site, jeffcarp.com, is written in markdown and uses the Hugo static site generator. This post walks you through how I set automatic building, testing, and deployment to Firebase hosting.

Project Setup

I assume we’re starting from a working Hugo project. For more on how to set that up, see the Hugo docs.

Testing Setup

I want the site to be Deploy-on-Green (i.e. only if it passes the tests). The CI setup I use is GCP Cloud Build. I develop and debug these tests locally using the local-cloud-build command documented here. The steps I want are:

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How I Host Static Sites With Automatic Deploy on Green

Project Setup

Testing Setup