Deploying a Hugo site using Github Actions

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I thought I’d share my github action which deploys this site whenever a push a new file to main. It compiles the site with hugo and the rsyncs across to the server.

This means that my workflow is:

fire up neovim and write
commit and push
sit back and wait for the site to update

The code for the action is below. It requires a couple of secrets to be set up:

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Deploying a Hugo site using Github Actions