How I Built and Deployed This Blog Using Hugo, Cloudflare Pages, and GitOps

What This Post Is

This blog exists to document my homelab DevOps work as I make the move from IBM Maximo consulting into DevOps engineering. Before writing about Kubernetes and GitOps, I figured the first post should document how the blog itself works — because the deployment pipeline is itself a DevOps project.

The Stack

How It Works End to End

Write locally in Markdown

Every post is a plain Markdown file sitting in content/posts/. I write locally using Neovim or VS Code. No CMS, no browser editor, no login required.

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hugo new posts/my-new-post.md
vim content/posts/my-new-post.md