GitHub Actions & rsync based deployments for Hugo

Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:10:47 +0000

Let’s start with the full GitHub Actions workflow file and then work our way through it step by step. You can also view the file on GitHub as a gist. This will serve as documentation for myself as well (the next time I’ll need it).

 1name: Build & Deploy
 2on:
 3 push:
 4 branches: [ main ]
 5 workflow_dispatch:
 6
 7jobs:
 8 deploy:
 9 runs-on: ubuntu-latest
10 concurrency:
11 group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
12 cancel-in-progress: true
13
14 steps:
15 - uses: actions/checkout@v7
16 with:
17 submodules: recursive
18 fetch-depth: 1
19 lfs: false
20
21 - name: Setup Hugo
22 uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v3
23 with:
24 hugo-version: '0.169.0'
25 
26 - name: Build
27 run: hugo --minify
28 
29 - name: Deploy
30 uses: burnett01/rsync-deployments@v9
31 with:
32 switches: -avzr --delete
33 path: public/
34 remote_path: ${{ secrets.REMOTE_PATH }}
35 remote_host: ${{ secrets.REMOTE_HOST }}
36 remote_user: ${{ secrets.REMOTE_USER }}
37 remote_key: ${{ secrets.REMOTE_PRIVATE_KEY }}

The Setup

Pretty basic setup at the top. We have on push to main branch which means that every time there’s a new commit added to the main branch this action is activated, and this includes merges to the main branch or direct pushes to it.

Bitbucket Pipelines, PHPUnit, PHPCS and CodeCeption

Wed, 22 Mar 2017 17:01:07 +0000

Background information

For a while now I’ve been thinking about starting a new project, and as with most such cases I’ve been thinking that I need to do things better and more proper this time around.

One of those things has always been the automated testing parts of the project that have fallen behind or lacking in many ways.

So I set a small private repository on Bitbucket to see what my options are, what I could work with, etc. and started looking into the various tools like Jenkins, Travis, and CircleCI.

Automation on Rihards Steinbergs

GitHub Actions & rsync based deployments for Hugo

The Setup

Bitbucket Pipelines, PHPUnit, PHPCS and CodeCeption

Background information