https://sambloomquist.com/tags/deployment/Recent content in Deployment on Sam BloomquistHugoen<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:26:19 -0500https://sambloomquist.com/posts/2025/01/publishing-a-hugo-static-site-with-github-pages/Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:12:47 +0000https://sambloomquist.com/posts/2025/01/publishing-a-hugo-static-site-with-github-pages/<!-- raw HTML omitted --> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>One of my motivations for starting a personal site was developing my technical (and non-technical) writing. With that in mind, what&rsquo;s a better starting point than writing about how the site is built and hosted? In this post I’ll go over how to start a Hugo site, how GitHub Pages works, and how to automate deployment with GitHub Actions.</p> <h1 id="building-hugo-sites">Building Hugo Sites</h1> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <!-- raw HTML omitted --> <p>Hugo provides a convenient command to get your site project started. However, you must install Hugo on your machine first. Hugo is distributed as a <a href="https://gohugo.io/installation/macos/#prebuilt-binaries">prebuilt binary which can be manually installed</a>, or more easily, installed with homebrew (on macOS and Linux).</p>