Behind the scenes …

Choices

This site aims to be a showcase site with a small blog to post articles. Such a website must load as fast as possible without memory consumption because served page is not dependent of user input !
That is why I looked into website compiled once and servedas static, and Hugo is a very light-weight framework to build showcase site.

Deployment

In order to keep up to date our stagging environment, a gitlab-ci workflow is the solution. With DevOps integration, adding content is very easy (as a dynamic website but without delay drawback)

Jobs

Build Hugo

Deploy through FTP

steps: - login to the selected workspace - push by replacing with new content

Gitlab-ci.yml

stages:
    - build
    - deploy

# Build with our template
hugo:
    image: jguyomard/hugo-builder
    stage: build
    script:
        - hugo
        - ls
    # keep the output for the next stage
    artifacts:
        paths:
        - public

# Let's deploy through FTP
ftp:
    image: ubuntu:18.04
    stage: deploy
    before_script:
        - apt-get update -qy
        - apt-get install -y lftp
    script:
        # Sync to FTP
        - lftp -e "open $FTP_SITE; user $FTP_USERNAME $FTP_PASSWORD; mirror -X .* -X .*/ --reverse --verbose --delete public/ /www/guillaume/; bye"
    dependencies: 
        - hugo

Behind this website

Guillaume PINEDA