Hugo

This is a follow up on my original post Build & deploy a Hugo site with Gitea/Forgejo actions. Almost two years later, I wanted to write down some experiences I had so that I could remember why I am where I am now 😅

Recap

Back then I used Cloudflare pages to host my blog. There’s still nothing wrong with this approach! There are multiple reasons why I moved on from this approach:

I admit it. I like self-hosting. I like the idea of being able to control every aspect of my infrastructure. It was only consequent to also self-host my blog. This article describes my odyssey and why I ended up letting Cloudflare do the hosting.

In the beginning - there was a repository. As we all know, the repository is the truth. When the time came for deploying the blog, I already had a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster at hand so the obvious choice was to containerize the web page and host it there. I wrote a simple Dockerfile with a multi-stage build, just like this: