Hugo Cloud Native Buildpack

The Hugo CNB provides Hugo and uses it to generate static assets. These static assets can be served with a server like HTTPD. The buildpack does not install any server for the assets.

The buildpack detects true if the app contains a content directory that contains at least one Markdown or HTML file.

The buildpack places generated static files in <app root>/public.

Integration

The Hugo CNB provides the hugo dependency (it puts the Hugo CLI on the $PATH). Downstream buildpacks can require the hugo dependency by generating a Build Plan TOML file that looks like the following:

[[requires]]

  # The name of the  dependency is "hugo".
  name = "hugo"

  # The Hugo buildpack supports some non-required metadata options.
  [requires.metadata]

    # Setting the build flag to true will ensure that the Hugo
    # depdendency is available on the $PATH for subsequent buildpacks during
    # their build phase. If you are writing a buildpack that needs to run Hugo
    # during its build process, this flag should be set to true.
    build = true

    # Setting the launch flag to true will ensure that the Hugo
    # dependency is available on the $PATH for the running application. If you are
    # writing an application that needs to run Hugo at runtime, this flag should
    # be set to true.
    launch = true

Usage

To package this buildpack for consumption:

$ ./scripts/package.sh --version <x.y.z>

This builds the buildpack's Go source using GOOS=linux by default. You can supply another value as the first argument to package.sh.

Once you have packaged the buildpack, you can build a site with it using the pack CLI:

cd my-hugo-site-directory
pack build hugo-site /
--buildpack paketobuildpacks/httpd:latest
--buildpack /path/to/hugo-buildpack/build/buildpack.tgz
--buildpack gcr.io/paketo-community/build-plan:latest
--builder paketobuildpacks/builder:full

Note: The above example assumes that you'll use HTTPD to serve the static assets. The Paketo HTTPD CNB can install the server in your app container. See the sample app in integration/testdata/default_site for a complete working example app.