Update 11/11/2024: The hugo deploy command was introduced which allows you to handle this entirely using Hugo. The pipeline below could probably still work but I’m no longer using it.

Previously, this post described how to create a working Bitbucket pipeline for deploying a Hugo static site to AWS S3.

I recently decided to migrate my blog from Wordpress to Hugo. I don’t blog as often these days so trying to keep up with new wordpress versions, securing my wordpress installation against hack attempts, and fighting comment spam was becoming overwhelming.