Personal website

This repository contains the source code for my personal website, developed with Hugo and hosted on AWS using S3 and CloudFront. Deployment is automated via GitHub Actions.

Technologies Used

• Hugo - Static site generator
• hugo-coder theme - Clean and minimalist theme for Hugo
• AWS S3 - Storage for static files
• AWS CloudFront - CDN for fast content delivery
• GitHub Actions - CI/CD for automatic deployment

Hosting

The site is hosted on AWS with an S3 bucket serving static files and a CloudFront Distribution as a CDN to optimize global delivery.

Automatic Deployment

Deployment is automatically triggered whenever there is a push to the main branch. GitHub Actions executes the following steps:

1. Checkout the repository
2. Setup Hugo
3. Authenticate with AWS via OIDC
4. Generate static files with Hugo
5. Upload files to S3
6. Invalidate the CloudFront cache to ensure changes are immediately reflected.

Manually Running the Deployment

If you need to force a manual deployment, run the following commands:

hugo --minify
hugo deploy --maxDeletes -1 --invalidateCDN
aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id <id> --paths "/*"

Environment Configuration

Sensitive credentials and configurations are stored as GitHub secrets. The environment variables used in the deployment are:

• AWS_S3_BUCKET - Name of the S3 bucket
• CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION_ID - CloudFront distribution ID
• ROLE_ARN - IAM Role for OIDC