Hugo

Fast and flexible static site generator — builds your entire site at creation time rather than on each request.

Port	1313
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo
Source	https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
Website	https://gohugo.io/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
latest	Upstream Binary. Built from official release.	Most users — recommended.
pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  hugo:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest"
    container_name: hugo
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for the application process
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for the application process
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone for the container
      - HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313  # Hostname (and path) to the root
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/hugo/app:/app"
    ports:
      - "1313:1313"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=hugo
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC
HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  hugo:
    name: hugo
    options:
      - container: 'boot args:--pull'
      - expose: '1313:1313 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
        - HUGO_BASEURL: !ENV '${HUGO_BASEURL}'
    volumes:
      - hugo_app: /app
volumes:
  hugo_app:
    device: '/path/to/containers/hugo/app'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:${tag}

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Podman CLI

podman run -d --name hugo \
  -p 1313:1313 \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313 \
  -v /path/to/containers/hugo/app:/app \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

AppJail

appjail oci run -Pd \
  -o overwrite=force \
  -o container="args:--pull" \
  -o virtualnet=":<random> default" \
  -o nat \
  -o expose="1313:1313 proto:tcp" \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e TZ=UTC \
  -e HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313 \
  -o fstab="/path/to/containers/hugo/app /app <pseudofs>" \
  ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest hugo

Save as run.sh, then run sh run.sh.

Note: Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the IPv4 address assigned by the virtual network.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah, shares the host network stack (inherit), and persists image-declared volumes under --data-path.

services:
  hugo:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest"
    container_name: hugo
    network_mode: host  # jail shares host networking
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
      - HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313

Save as podman-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Or via CLI:

bastille create -O \
  --env PUID=1000 \
  --env PGID=1000 \
  --env TZ=UTC \
  --env HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:1313 \
  --data-path /path/to/containers/hugo \
  hugo ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest inherit

Ansible

- name: Deploy hugo
  containers.podman.podman_container:
    name: hugo
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/hugo:latest"
    state: started
    restart_policy: always
    env:
      PUID: "1000"
      PGID: "1000"
      TZ: "UTC"
      HUGO_BASEURL: "http://localhost:1313"
    ports:
      - "1313:1313"
    volumes:
      - "/path/to/containers/hugo/app:/app"

Save as hugo-deploy.yaml, then run ansible-playbook hugo-deploy.yaml.

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for the application process
PGID	1000	Group ID for the application process
TZ	UTC	Timezone for the container
HUGO_BASEURL	http://localhost:1313	Hostname (and path) to the root

Volumes

Path	Description
/app	Website source code (mount your repo here)

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
1313	TCP	Dev Server Port

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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