Auto-publish on commit

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:29:36 +1100

Problem Link to heading

When a Hugo content file contains:

title: "My New Blog Post"
date: 2026-10-27
draft: true

Hugo treats the content as unpublished. Running a standard build hugo will exclude all draft content from the generated site. This behavior is intentional and helps prevent unfinished articles from being published accidentally.

To preview, hugo server -D. The -D (or –buildDrafts) flag tells Hugo to include draft content during local development.

Hosted by Netlify

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:41:01 +1100

How to deploy to Netlify Link to heading

I’m practicing multicloud deployments and want to host this blog on Netlify.

Create netlify.toml in blog repo on GitLab Link to heading

[build.environment]
DART_SASS_VERSION = "1.105.1"
GO_VERSION = "1.27.2"
HUGO_VERSION = "0.168.0"
NODE_VERSION = "24.21.0"
TZ = "Europe/Oslo"

[build]
publish = "public"
command = """\
 curl -sfLO "https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/download/${DART_SASS_VERSION}/dart-sass-${DART_SASS_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.gz" && \
 tar -C "${HOME}/.local" -xf "dart-sass-${DART_SASS_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.gz" && \
 rm "dart-sass-${DART_SASS_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.gz" && \
 export PATH="${HOME}/.local/dart-sass:${PATH}" && \
 git config --global core.quotepath false && \
 hugo build --gc --minify --baseURL "${URL}"
 """

Configure Netlify Link to heading

Create a project by importing from GitLab
Name the project ps4b→blog URL becomes https://ps4bp.netlify.app