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How I migrated my Hugo site from Azure Storage Site to Azure Static Web Apps

For about 3 years now, I’ve been running this personal blog site using Hugo, running on Azure Static Storage Sites and Azure Front Door as load balancer/TLS protection service. About 18 months back, Microsoft released Azure Static Web Apps, a platform built for exactly that, hosting Static Web sites, such as Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, .NET Blazor, and also… Hugo :). As I had to migrate my resources to a new Azure subscription and tenant, I thought this was a perfect moment to migrate to SWA.

Integrating Azure App Insights for Hugo on Static Web Apps

Hey folks, Earlier this week, I wrote about how I migrated my Hugo blog site from Azure Storage Account-based site to the newer Azure Static Web Apps with Hugo. While this was a smooth process, both migrating the actual site content, as well as transferring the public domain name, the piece missing was the statistics. I always used Azure Application Insights for this, but specifically for Azure Static Web Apps, App Insights is only supported when using Functions (as per this article on the Microsoft docs).

Running your Hugo site on Azure Static WebApps (Preview)

Only about a month ago, I decided to move my former website (running on Wix) to the Open Source Hugo platform, running it as a static website with MarkDown, using Azure Storage Static Website. For more details on how to do this, have a look at my blog post here I have to say, it runs fine, is cheap, fast, reliable,… But then I discovered the new Azure Static Web App capability, as announced during //Build conference earlier this week, so I wanted to give it a try.

Collecting Hugo static site statistics using Azure Application Insights

Welcome back! About a month ago, I decided to move my former 007FFFLearning website from Wix.com to something “easier” to use for blog writing. While Wix is an excellent platform, offering an easy way to build a graphical website, besides a ton of plug-ins, it also comes with a cost. And since I didn’t have a need for a lot of the built-in features I was using out of my own business before I joined Microsoft, I wanted to try something new.

Running an Azure Storage Static Site, protected by Azure Front Door

Earlier this week, I had the honor to present a session for the Belgian MC2MC Microsoft community, as part of a broader online event week with other Belgian community User Groups (https://www.mc2mc.be/events/be-community-week-mc2mc-evening). My session topic was based on a little real-life project I worked on myself only a few weeks ago, deploying a “Hugo” based static website on Azure Storage Account Static Site (Yes, this site you are reading right now…).