Hugo on Azure

I’ve been spending some time learning the Azure stack. Traditionally, it is considered “the 3rd stack” after AWS and GCP. Google noticed AWS a little earlier than Microsoft, yes, but Azure is more than 3 times bigger than GCP revenue-wise.

Azure has good Linux and even FreeBSD support at this point and also many high-level services (or resources) like static webapp hosting with CDN integration and intelligent CI pipelines similar to Github actions.

Hugo is one of the static website engines that have pre-defined build recipes when set up on “Azure Static Web App” which is the type of the resource I am using for this blog.

I will describe the process of launching a simple Hugo-powered blog on Azure step-by-step later. I’ve completed it myself just today and want to spend several days looking at how it behaves and what the costs are first.