Serving Hugo on Azure with Continuous Integration

Why? In my last post, I walked through how to configure your Azure blob and CDN to serve your static website. The deployment script outlined in that post is fine for a simple blog site. However, it is not a solution if you have a site that is contributed by multiple people. Everytime anyone pushes, they would get a merge conflict on the generated content, or they can force push and risk losing other changes....

September 25, 2017 · 6 min · 1084 words · Hao Luo

Custom NodeJs Deployment on Azure Web App

One of the advantages of using Azure Web App is how easy it is to deploy a NodeJS app. If you have an app as simple as this one, Azure Web App will pick it up, install all the node dependencies, and serve the app on port 80. And you are done!!! Unfortunately, a lot of times, you might want to venture outside the comfort of auto-deploy land, and do some customization....

March 24, 2017 · 5 min · 959 words · Hao Luo