CI/CD for Hexo

With Buddy, you can create a pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys Hexo websites on a single push to Git. The configuration is super simple and takes 10 to 15 minutes.

Hexo pipeline example

1. Select your Git repository

Buddy supports all popular Git hosting providers, including GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. You can also use your own private Git server, or host code directly on Buddy.

Supported Git providers

2. Add a new delivery pipeline

Enter the pipeline's name, select the trigger mode, and define the branch from which Buddy will fetch your code:

Exemplary pipeline settings

Success

Event-based triggers allow you to run pipelines whenever a push is made to any branch in the repository, or whenever a branch, tag or a pull request is created or deleted. On event pipeline trigger mode

3. Add actions

Buddy lets you choose from dozens of predefined actions. In this example, we'll add 3 actions that will perform the following tasks:

• Build and test your Hexo website
• Upload website to server
• Send notification to Slack

3.1 Build and test your Hexo website

Look up and click Hexo on the action list to add it to the pipeline:

Hexo on action list

The Run tab lets you determine the commands to execute. The default commands are:

bashnpm install
hexo generate$$

Hexo command console

3.1.2 Hexo version

You can change the version of Hexo and install missing packages & tools in the runtime environment tab:

Hexo action image

3.2 Deploy website to server

The website is ready for upload. Head to the Transfer section and select your deploy action (SFTP in our case):

File transfer actions

When adding the action you can choose what and where should be uploaded:

SFTP action configuration

3.3 Send notification to Slack

You can configure Buddy to send your team a message after the deployment. In this example we'll use Slack:

Notification actions

Hint

If you add this action in the On Failure tab, Buddy will only send the message if something goes wrong with your build or deployment. On failure notification

4. Summary

Congratulations! You have just automated your entire delivery process. Make a push to the selected branch and watch Buddy fetch, build, and deploy your project. With Continuous Delivery applied, you can now focus on what's really important: developing awesome apps! 🔥