HUGO

  • News
  • Docs
  • Themes
  • Community
  • GitHub
Star
HOSTING AND DEPLOYMENT

Hosting on KeyCDN

Accelerate your Hugo site globally with a KeyCDN integration. This tutorial shows you how to setup your static site as a GitLab page behind a KeyCDN pull zone.

KeyCDN provides a multitude of features to help accelerate and secure your Hugo site globally including Brotli compression, Let’s Encrypt support, Origin Shield, and more.

Assumptions

  • You already have a Hugo page configured
  • You have a GitLab account
  • You have a KeyCDN account

Create a KeyCDN Pull Zone

The first step will be to login to your KeyCDN account and create a new zone. Name this whatever you like and select the Pull Zone option. As for the the origin URL, your site will be running on GitLab Pages with a URL of https://youruser.gitlab.io/reponame/. Use this as the Origin URL.

Screenshot of KeyCDN's pull zone creation page

While the origin location doesn’t exist yet, you will need to use your new Zone URL address (or Zonealias) in the .gitlab-ci.yml file that will be uploaded to your GitLab project.

Ensure that you use your Zone URL or Zonealias as the BASEURL variable in the example below. This will be the user-visible website address.

Configure Your .gitlab-ci.yml File

Your .gitlab-ci.yml file should look similar to the example below. Be sure to modify any variables that are specific to your setup.

image: alpine:latest

variables:
    BASEURL: "https://cipull-7bb7.kxcdn.com/"
    HUGO_VERSION: "0.26"
    HUGO_CHECKSUM: "67e4ba5ec2a02c8164b6846e30a17cc765b0165a5b183d5e480149baf54e1a50"
    KEYCDN_ZONE_ID: "75544"

before_script:
    - apk update
    - apk add curl

pages:
    stage: deploy
    script:
    - apk add git
    - git submodule update --init
    - curl -sSL https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/hugo_${HUGO_VERSION}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz -o /tmp/hugo.tar.gz
    - echo "${HUGO_CHECKSUM}  /tmp/hugo.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c
    - tar xf /tmp/hugo.tar.gz hugo -C /tmp/ && cp /tmp/hugo /usr/bin
    - hugo --baseURL ${BASEURL}
    - curl "https://api.keycdn.com/zones/purge/${KEYCDN_ZONE_ID}.json" -u "${KEYCDN_API_KEY}:"
    artifacts:
    paths:
    - public
    only:
    - master

Using this integration method, you will have to specify the Zone ID and your KeyCDN API key as secret variables. To do this, navigate to the top-left menu bar in GitLab and select Projects. Then, select your project and click on the Settings page. Finally, select Pipelines from the sub-menu and scroll down to the Secret Variable section.

The Secret Variable for your Zone ID should look similar to:

Screenshot of setting the Zone ID secret variable

While the Secret Variable for your API Key will look similar to:

Screenshot of setting the API Key secret variable

The Zone ID and API key are used to purge your zone – it’s not strictly needed but otherwise, the CDN might deliver older versions of your assets for quite a while.

Push Your Changes to GitLab

Now it’s time to push the newly created repository to GitLab:

git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:youruser/ciexample.git
git push -u origin master

You can watch the progress and CI job output in your Gitlab project under “Pipelines”.

After verifying your CI job ran without issues, first check that your GitLab page shows up under https://youruser.gitlab.io/reponame/ (it might look broken depending on your browser settings as all links point to your KeyCDN zone – don’t worry about that) and then by heading to whatever Zonealias / Zone URL you defined.

To learn more about Hugo hosting options with KeyCDN, check out the complete Hugo hosting with KeyCDN integration guide.

See Also

  • Host-Agnostic Deploys with Nanobox
  • Host on Bitbucket
  • Host on Netlify
  • Host on GitLab
  • Host on GitHub
  • About Hugo
    • Overview
    • Hugo Features
    • The Benefits of Static
    • Roadmap
    • License
  • Getting Started
    • Get Started Overview
    • Quick Start
    • Install Hugo
    • Basic Usage
    • Directory Structure
    • Configuration
  • Themes
    • Themes Overview
    • Install and Use Themes
    • Customize a Theme
    • Create a Theme
  • Content Management
    • Content Management Overview
    • Organization
    • Supported Content Formats
    • Front Matter
    • Shortcodes
    • Related Content
    • Sections
    • Types
    • Archetypes
    • Taxonomies
    • Summaries
    • Links and Cross References
    • URL Management
    • Menus
    • Table of Contents
    • Comments
    • Multilingual and i18n
    • Syntax Highlighting
  • Templates
    • Templates Overview
    • Introduction
    • Template Lookup Order
    • Custom Output Formats
    • Base Templates and Blocks
    • List Page Templates
    • Homepage Template
    • Section Templates
    • Taxonomy Templates
    • Single Page Templates
    • Content View Templates
    • Data Templates
    • Partial Templates
    • Shortcode Templates
    • Local File Templates
    • 404 Page
    • Menu Templates
    • Pagination
    • RSS Templates
    • Sitemap Template
    • Robots.txt
    • Internal Templates
    • Alternative Templating
    • Template Debugging
  • Functions
    • Functions Quick Reference
    • .AddDate
    • .Format
    • .Get
    • .GetPage
    • .Param
    • .Scratch
    • .Unix
    • Math
    • absLangURL
    • absURL
    • after
    • apply
    • base64
    • chomp
    • countrunes
    • countwords
    • dateFormat
    • default
    • delimit
    • dict
    • echoParam
    • emojify
    • eq
    • findRE
    • first
    • ge
    • getenv
    • gt
    • hasPrefix
    • highlight
    • htmlEscape
    • htmlUnescape
    • humanize
    • i18n
    • imageConfig
    • in
    • index
    • int
    • intersect
    • isset
    • jsonify
    • lang.NumFmt
    • last
    • le
    • lower
    • lt
    • markdownify
    • md5
    • ne
    • now
    • partialCached
    • plainify
    • pluralize
    • print
    • printf
    • println
    • querify
    • range
    • readDir
    • readFile
    • ref
    • relLangURL
    • relURL
    • relref
    • render
    • replace
    • replaceRE
    • safeCSS
    • safeHTML
    • safeHTMLAttr
    • safeJS
    • safeURL
    • seq
    • sha
    • shuffle
    • singularize
    • slice
    • slicestr
    • sort
    • split
    • string
    • strings.TrimLeft
    • strings.TrimPrefix
    • strings.TrimRight
    • strings.TrimSuffix
    • substr
    • time
    • title
    • trim
    • truncate
    • union
    • uniq
    • upper
    • urlize
    • urls.Parse
    • where
    • with
  • Variables
    • Variables Overview
    • Site Variables
    • Page Variables
    • Shortcode Variables
    • Taxonomy Variables
    • File Variables
    • Menu Variables
    • Hugo Variables
    • Git Variables
    • Sitemap Variables
  • CLI
  • Troubleshooting
    • Troubleshoot
    • Accented Characters in URLs
    • Build Performance
    • EOF Error
  • Tools
    • Developer Tools Overview
    • Migrations
    • Starter Kits
    • Frontends
    • Editor Plug-ins
    • Search
    • Other Projects
  • Hosting & Deployment
    • Hosting & Deployment Overview
    • Host-Agnostic Deploys with Nanobox
    • Host on Netlify
    • Host on Firebase
    • Host on GitHub
    • Host on GitLab
    • Host on Bitbucket
    • Deployment with Wercker
    • Deployment with Rsync
  • Contribute
    • Contribute to Hugo
    • Development
    • Documentation
    • Themes
“Hosting on KeyCDN” was last updated: October 13, 2017: Initial commit (a48229f)
Improve this page
By the Hugo Authors

The Hugo logos are copyright © Steve Francia 2013–2017.

The Hugo Gopher is based on an original work by Renée French.

  • File an Issue
  • Get Help
  • Discuss the Source Code
  • @GoHugoIO
  • @spf13
  • @bepsays
  • News
  • Docs
  • Themes
  • Community
  • GitHub
  • About Hugo
  • Getting Started
  • Themes
  • Content Management
  • Templates
  • Functions
  • Variables
  • CLI
  • Troubleshooting
  • Tools
  • Hosting & Deployment
  • Contribute