I thought this was going to be easy, because in the config.toml file you just
add EnableGitInfo based on https://gohugo.io/variables/git/. But then my
automated push via Cloud Build stopped building because
ERROR 2019/07/20 20:46:13 Failed to read Git log: Git executable not found in $PATH
I thought that the Cloud Build environment needed to have Git installed, but what is even a Cloud Build environment? It turns out, the answer is “nothing” and that’s a stupid question. The right question is “which container image is missing Git”. And that answer is the cloud build community’s Hugo package. The Dockerfile tells the story:
FROM busybox
ENV HUGO_VERSION=0.55.0
RUN wget -O- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/hugo_${HUGO_VERSION}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz | tar zx
FROM gcr.io/distroless/base
ENTRYPOINT ["/hugo"]
COPY --from=0 /hugo /
This is a Docker multi-stage
build and
it’s the last image that becomes the Hugo image used by my cloud builder based
on my previous
post. I don’t know
how to install anything into that base image.
So I cheated and went to alpine:
FROM busybox
ENV HUGO_VERSION=0.55.0
RUN wget -O- https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/hugo_${HUGO_VERSION}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz | tar zx
FROM alpine
ENTRYPOINT ["/hugo"]
RUN apk add --no-cache git
COPY --from=0 /hugo /
To be clear, this is stupid. I should learn about multi-stage builds and probably create another stage that has Git, which I can add to the distroless base image, based on this issue on GitHub. But, instead, I’m cheating based on this issue.
It works, so I’ll leave it for now.