Posts tagged #gitolite

Let's say that you have tried Hugo,  you liked it, and made a website with it.
Now you are ready to deploy that website for the whole world to see.

Wouldn't it be great if you could just do:

git add .
git commit -m "Updated blog content"
git push

And be done with it?

Well, if that sounds like your kind of thing; something you'd like to have...
Then read on my friend!

Inventory#

What do you need for this tutorial?

• A public server somewhere. If you don't have one, you can get a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from Linode , DigitalOcean  or similar providers.
• An account with access to sudo.
• You have git available, from this guide. 
• You use Gitolite to manage your repositories, from this guide. 
• A configured webserver ---I recommend looking into NGINX , since it's super easy to setup in Ubuntu.

Let's assume:

1. A local ~/.ssh/config file with this content:

   Host git-server
     # This is the IP for your VPS
     HostName 111.111.111.111
     Port 22
     # This is the remote user
     User yolo
   
   Host web-server
     # This is the IP for your other VPS
     HostName 222.222.222.222
     Port 22
     # This is the remote user
     User webcustomer
   

2. You have your Hugo project versioned with git and you can push code to the remote repository.

3. The repository's name is yolo-web, so you can clone it like this:

   git clone git@git-server:yolo-web