As I repeatedly mentioned in this blog, takuti.me is currently generated by Hugo:

• Migrate to Hugo from Jekyll: Another Solution for the MathJax+Markdown Issue
• Moving to GitHub Pages
• Hugo meets kramdown + KaTeX #gohugo

Manual deployment

Until quite recently, my deployment workflow was not clever; I manually followed the steps as:

1. Write an article under takuti.me/_content directory
2. Hit rake command and generate my site under the public/ directory
3. Commit & push takuti.me/* to repository (source), except for public/
4. Commit & push takuti.me/public/* to repository (GitHub Pages)

It actually works, but we can automate the workflow more aggressively...it's 2017!

Utilizing deploy: feature on Travis CI

So, eventually deployment becomes easier thanks to the following guide:

• GitHub Pages Deployment - Travis CI

My current .travis.yml looks like:

language: c
os: osx

before_script:
  - npm install -g gulp
  - npm install
  - brew update && brew install hugo

script:
  - rake

branches:
  only:
    - master

notifications:
  email: false

deploy:
  provider: pages
  skip_cleanup: true
  local_dir: public
  github_token: $GITHUB_TOKEN # Set in travis-ci.org dashboard
  on:
    branch: master
  repo: takuti/takuti.github.io
  target_branch: master
  fqdn: takuti.me

Once you have set your $GITHUB_TOKEN to environment variables in travis-ci.org, CI on source repository automatically generates your site and pushes it to GitHub Pages repository; now what we have to do is:

1. Write an article under takuti.me/_content directory
2. Commit & push takuti.me/* to repository (source), except for public/

Neat, huh?

In case that you are using custome domain on GitHub Pages like me, setting fqdn: as fqdn: takuti.me enables Travis CI to automatically create the CNAME file under xxx.github.io repository.

Next

Unfortunately, the CI-based deployment still has problems.

First, Deployment Bot removes all of your commit logs in xxx.github.io repository; it forcibly pushes to the repository:

In addition, since installation such as npm install and brew install is necessaly for every time CI is launched, deployment usually takes more than 5 minutes.

In fact, these are minor problems from a practical point of view, but I personally believe that deploying static site can be more efficient and technologically stimulating by different approach e.g., using Docker containers. So, I continuouslly try to update how to organize takuti.me.

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2021-03-06

Moving Julia Project from Travis CI to GitHub Actions #JuliaLang

2017-04-30

Moving to GitHub Pages

2015-10-19

Migrate to Hugo from Jekyll: Another Solution for the MathJax+Markdown Issue

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Last updated: 2022-06-05

  Author: Takuya Kitazawa

Takuya Kitazawa is a freelance software developer, minimalistic traveler, ultralight hiker & runner, and craft beer enthusiast. With a decade of experience at start-up companies and Big Tech ranging from full-stack/machine-learning engineering to data science to product management, I am currently working at the intersection of technological and social aspects of data-driven applications. See CV for more information.

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