Hugo

Archetypes in Hugo is a great way to make starting off a new page, blog post, or any other types of content. It is in essence a type template that makes it a little faster to create content by automatically generating a skeleton with pre-filled metadata and content to start you of. In my blog I use it to automatically differentiate between posts and other types of content. It took me a while to get me head around how this works, so I thought I would share how I think about this feature and hopefully it will help someone that thinks the same way as I do. ...

Now we have the website deployed on the Google Cloud Platform as a static site, it allows us to access it by going to http://www.winsnes.io. This is fantastic, but what if someone goes to http://winsnes.io? This is the second post in the ongoing series about hosting a blog on the Google Cloud Platform for cheap. When we set up a storage bucket with a static site hosted on it, we ask Google to take care of all the domain name routing that happens in the background. And Google will happily route all requests to www.winsnes.io to the static buck and display the content of the blog. But we never told google to do anything about winsnes.io, so that won’t be routed correctly. ...

This post is the first part of a long running series about running a blog in the cloud using production ready DevOps practices on the cheap. The code in this blog post is the same code I use to run this blog, and it is all available in a public github repository. The automatic CI and CD processes will be ran directly out of this public repository, and you will be able to see all the moving parts of what makes this blog work. Any credentials and secrets will of course not be included ;) ...