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draft = true
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categories = ["Continuous Delivery", "Hugo"]
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tags = ["Hugo", "DevOps", "Gitea", "DroneCI"]
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toc = true
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@ -13,22 +14,73 @@ This blog is created using the [Hugo][0] static site generator. I used
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to deploy new posts using a bare git repository on the target server
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and a `post-receive` hook to build the posts and copy them to the
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public web server directory. I followed [this tutorial][1] by Digital
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Ocean. This worked well enough but, to deploy the blog, I always needed
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to push to a separate git remote. Also I had to set up SSH access to
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the server and the new git remote if I wanted to write posts on
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another machine.
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Ocean. This worked well enough but, to deploy the blog, I always
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needed to push to a separate git remote. Also I had to set up SSH
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access to the server and the new git remote if I wanted to write posts
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on another machine. I decided, a better setup was needed.
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<!-- more -->
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## Goal
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The goal of the new pipeline should be to automatically build and
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deploy the blog when commit is made to the repository:
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```
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+-------------------+ +------------+ +------------------+
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| Git commit & push | -> | Hugo build | -> | Deploy to server |
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+-------------------+ +------------+ +------------------+
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```
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## Setup
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A few weeks ago, I setup [DroneCI][2] aside my [Gitea][3] instance.
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There is a [great plugin for DroneCI][4] to build Hugo websites.
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Deploying the generated pages can be done using the [SCP][5] or
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[rsync][6] plugins. I decided to use rsync since it would be able to
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execute a custom script after copying the files over to the target
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machine (which I'm not making use of). To take the load of compressing
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requested files from my web server, I use the [`gzip_static`
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module][7] of nginx. The compression is done using the following
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`Makefile`:
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machine (which might come in handy in the future).
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Drone build pipelines are made up of several steps, where the changes
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made on the repository in each step are persisted to the next step. So
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when the first step (actually it is the second step since the first is
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cloning the repository but this is an implicit step) builds the Hugo
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website, the build output in the `public/` directory will still exist
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in the following step, so I can use the created files and copy them to
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the target server in the second step. At this point my DroneCI
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configuration looked like this:
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```yaml
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pipeline:
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build:
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image: cbrgm/drone-hugo:latest
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validate: true
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url: https://www.vbrandl.net
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deploy:
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image: drillster/drone-rsync
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hosts: [ "vbrandl.net" ]
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target: /var/www/vbrandl.net
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source: public/*
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user: hugo
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secrets: [ rsync_key ]
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```
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The SSH key for the user `hugo` on the target server was added as a
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secret to the repository so I was able to use rsync.
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Due to Drones modular approach for build pipelines, it is trivial to
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deploy the blog to other targets. There are plugins to deploy to [AWS
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S3][11], use [FTP(S)][12] for uploading and many others. Only the
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`deploy` step in the pipeline need to be replaced.
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## Improving the Pipeline
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### Ahead-of-Time Compression
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To take the load of compressing requested files from my web server, I
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use the [`gzip_static` module][7] of nginx. The compression is done
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using the following `Makefile`:
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```Makefile
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.PHONY: default clean
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pipeline between the build and the deploy step, that uses the [Alpine
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Linux base image][8], installs `make` and executes the `Makefile`.
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Drone build pipelines are made up of several steps, where the changes
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made on the repository in each step are persisted to the next step. So
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when the first step (actually it is the second step since the first is
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cloning the repository but this is an implicit step) builds the Hugo
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website, the `public/` directory will still exist in the new step, so
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I can perform the AoT compression and copy all files to the target
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server in the third step. At this point my DroneCI configuration
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looked like this:
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```yaml
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pipeline:
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build:
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secrets: [ rsync_key ]
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```
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The SSH key for the user `hugo` on the target server was added as a
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secret to the repository so I was able to use rsync.
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### Multiple Environments
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At this point I thought it would be fun to implement a staging area
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for the blog to test unreleased drafts and get feedback on them,
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@ -161,10 +203,14 @@ Now my blog is automatically deployed once I merge new posts into the
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blog might be considered to be overkill, it was pretty fun to
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implement a proper deployment pipeline.
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Due to Drones modular approach for build pipelines, it is trivial to
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deploy the blog to other targets. There are plugins to deploy to [AWS
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S3][11], use [FTP(S)][12] for uploading and many others. Only the
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according `deploy-*` steps in the pipeline need to be replaced.
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The final pipeline looks like this:
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```
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+----------+ +-----------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+
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| Git push | > | Hugo build $ENV | > | Compress files | > | Deploy to $ENV |
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+----------+ +-----------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+
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```
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[0]: https://gohugo.io/
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[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-hugo-site-to-production-with-git-hooks-on-ubuntu-14-04
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