blog-hugo

I am hoping to migrate my dynamic blog currently hosted using GHOST CMS to a static site using HUGO.

Pros of static sites

• Security
• Reliability
• Speed
• Scalability
• Low Resource requirement

Why

The reasons above all fit well with my current goal of trying to containerise all of the services running on my home lab. Currently I have 2 servers running Proxmox VE with a combined 48 threads and 256GB of RAM which as you can imagine take a lot of power.

The plan is to slowly move the majority of my services to a cluster of 4 RaspberryPis. If all the services required support the ARM CPU architecture then I can completely decommission the power hungry servers.

How

I am still coming up with the deployment method of this site but from what I have seen the Gitlab CI/CD pipeline makes a lot of sense as the site will be hosted on Gitlab anyway.

• Update Gitlab with new code
• Gitlab generates a docker image
• Docker Swarm cluster uses that image to host the site

When Pulling / Cloning

git clone --recurse-submodules git@gitlab.com:AHMZA/blog.git

Update the theme

git submodule update --remote --merge