Recently (April 2018), I redeployed grh.am using Hugo after running the site with Jekyll for a number of years (which I never really blogged about, the last blog post talks about Pelican! Previously, deployment felt a little clunky, requiring a git push to a remote repository set up on a server, where a git hook picks up on the new commit and runs Jekyll (as per the Jekyll documentation). This time round, I fancied doing it a little differently & automating all of the deployment whilst also removing a lot of the moving parts to limit areas for things to go wrong. I’ve been using GitLab for a while now thanks to their free private repositories & various other wonderful offerings, one of which is CI/CD which we’ll be using a little later in this post.