Building A Blog

I am looking to build a blog to keep track of my software development notes. There seems to be a number of solutions that can be used. Such as building my own, Hugo, Jekyll and others.

To start I’ve built a list of things that I feel are important while building:

• use markdown
• include RSS feed

Because I am comfortable with Go and already have the tooling installed to get up and running , I’ve decided to start by trying out Hugo.

This ended up by working out well. I found this theme that is simple and does what I want it to.

I am using Gitlab for my repository and their CI tooling with a self hosted runner. With that I am able to leverage Docker to rebuild a new image when I push to master (I have included my Dockerfile bellow).

# Dockerfile
FROM alpine:latest AS build
WORKDIR /app

RUN apk add --no-cache --repository=https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community hugo ;\
	apk add --no-cache git
COPY . .
RUN git submodule update --init --recursive ;\
	hugo --minify

FROM nginx:alpine
WORKDIR /usr/share/nginx/html

RUN rm -rf ./*
COPY --from=build /app/public .
EXPOSE 80/tcp