Deploying Hugo website with AWS Amplify

While trying to deploy one of my Hugo website using AWS Amplify , I had an issue while trying to continously deploy the website as AWS Amplify wasn’t able to detect which Framework I was using in my git repository.

The solution I’ve found was to enforce the installation of hugo binary in the build phase of the frontend.

Here below a sample of the yaml configuration I’ve used (here using Hugo = v0.86.0, adapt to your need)

version: 0.1
frontend:
  phases:
    build:
      commands:
        - wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.86.0/hugo_extended_0.86.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
        - tar -xf hugo_extended_0.86.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz hugo
        - mv hugo /usr/bin/hugo
        - rm -rf hugo_extended_0.86.0_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
        - hugo
  artifacts:
    baseDirectory: public
    files:
      - '**/*'
  cache:
    paths: []

Sources

michaux.co blog post

AWS Amplify documentation

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