Migrated the Blog from Pelican to Hugo

Jul 28, 2015 · 273 words · 2 minute read docker

I’ve been using pelican to build blog.ceshine.net for about two years, and as you can see, I’ve not been very productive. Part of the reasons is that I found I spent more time tuning the code rather than actually writing stuffs.

Recently Go-based Hugo caught my attention. Go can easily compile multi-platform binary executables, which makes deployment much easier. Hugo also provide a decent built-in web server whose performance is good enough for some small-scale production use. So after some experimenting, I decided to replace the old pelican site with Hugo.

The deployment will be even more simpler if you use Docker and Docker-Compose. First put the site under git version control, in my case, I put it on https://github.com/ceshine/ceshine-hugo.git. We’re gonna need two images, content and hugo:

The dockerfile for content:

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y ca-certificates git-core
RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*
RUN git clone --recursive https://github.com/ceshine/ceshine-hugo.git /src/blog

VOLUME ["/src/blog"]
WORKDIR /src/blog

ENTRYPOINT ["git"]
CMD ["pull"]

The dockerfile for hugo:

FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN apt-get install -y curl
# Fetch and install the hugo binary files
RUN curl -L -o /tmp/hugo.tar.gz https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.14/hugo_0.14_linux_amd64.tar.gz
RUN tar zxvf /tmp/hugo.tar.gz -C /tmp  && mv /tmp/hugo_0.14_linux_amd64/hugo_0.14_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/hugo

# VOLUME ["/var/www/blog"]

RUN apt-get install -y python-pygments
ENTRYPOINT ["hugo"]
#CMD ["-w", "-s", "/src/blog", "-d", "/var/www/blog"]
CMD ["server", "-w", "-s", "/src/blog", "--bind=0.0.0.0", "--appendPort=false", "-v", "-b", "https://hugo.ceshine.net", "--disableLiveReload"]

For Docker-Compose, docker-compose.yml:

content:
  build: dockerfiles/content/

web:
  build: dockerfiles/hugo/
  ports:
    - 80:1313
  volumes_from:
    - content
  restart: on-failure

To start the server on port 80:

docker-compose up -d

To fetch the new content off the git remote and automatically update the site:

docker-compose up content
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