Automatically Deploy a Hugo Site with GitLab CI/CD

October 24, 2026

Automatically Deploy a Hugo Site with GitLab CI/CD #

I wanted publishing a change to this site to be more than a reminder to log in to the server and run Hugo by hand. My GitLab pipeline connects to my Hugo server and builds the site there when I push to master.

This setup uses a self-hosted GitLab Runner that can reach the Hugo server on my home network. The pipeline does not upload a build artifact: the server has its own checkout of the blog repository, and the deploy job pulls the latest changes before running Hugo.

Use ansible-lint with Vault Files

June 30, 2025

Use ansible-lint with Vault Files #

Why I wrote this post #

I decided to write this post because I struggled to find clear, practical examples of how to make ansible-lint work with Ansible Vault files in CI/CD environments. While searching for solutions, I found a GitHub discussion where someone was asking the exact same question I had.

The official ansible-lint documentation mentions that decrypting Ansible Vault in CI is possible, but frustratingly, it doesn’t provide any actual examples of how to implement it. After some trial and error, I figured out a working solution that I want to share.