Static site deployment with Gitlab CI
These days, static site generators are a much-used tool for building websites that can then be served by S3 or Google Cloud Storage. This is a good idea because static websites are fast and cheap. But because of their static nature of static sites, deploying them is a pretty manual process. So let’s automate it using a couple of freely available tools: You can use Hugo to generate the site, Google’s Firebase will host it for you (for free if you’re on the Spark plan, and you get Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates out of the box), and you can use Gitlab CI to deploy it automatically....