A while ago I switched the blog from Wordpress to Hugo. Since the switch updating the blog has had a few steps to it:

• Write the new content.
• Commit to the git repo.
• Run the hugo command to generate the site.
• Upload to Azure Blob Storage.
• Purge the CDN.

I’ve been running those steps manually up until now. But then I discovered this guide to deploying Hugo using Azure Pipelines by Michael Brinkman.

I had always planned to automate it, but I didn’t expect there to be prebuilt steps for doing in the Azure Pipelines, notably Hugo by Giulio Vian and Purge Azure CDN Endpoint by Fabien Lavocat.