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Hugo

This guide shows you how to use Hugo, a high performance webserver, with the ananke theme.

To run it, follow these steps:

Install the CLI and a container runtime engine, for example Docker. Use the unikraft CLI or the legacy kraft CLI.
Clone the examples repository and cd into the examples/hugo0.122/ directory:

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git clone https://github.com/unikraft-cloud/examples
cd examples/hugo0.122/

Make sure to log into Unikraft Cloud and pick a metro close to you. This guide uses fra (Frankfurt, 🇩🇪):

When done, invoke the following command to deploy this app on Unikraft Cloud:

The output shows the instance address and other details:

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[●] Deployed successfully!
 │
 ├────────── name: hugo0122-zpabu
 ├────────── uuid: dfc6e06c-76cc-4aa1-a053-c4eded0d2456
 ├───────── state: running
 ├─────────── url: https://morning-rain-jikpfy3t.fra.unikraft.app
 ├───────── image: hugo0122@sha256:68d20fdb707076b1cd0f2848b17cc75670d8a92b740edb9417aeb8463fef7f19
 ├───── boot time: 77.17 ms
 ├──────── memory: 512 MiB
 ├─────── service: morning-rain-jikpfy3t
 ├── private fqdn: hugo0122-zpabu.internal
 ├──── private ip: 172.16.6.4
 └────────── args: /usr/bin/hugo server --bind=0.0.0.0 --source /site

In this case, the instance name is hugo0122-zpabu and the address is https://morning-rain-jikpfy3t.fra.unikraft.app. They're different for each run.

Use curl to query the Unikraft Cloud instance of Hugo.

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curl https://morning-rain-jikpfy3t.fra.unikraft.app

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-us">
  <head><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&amp;v=2&amp;port=1313&amp;path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
[...]

You can list information about the instance by running:

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NAME            FQDN                                    STATE    STATUS        IMAGE                                                     MEMORY   VCPUS  ARGS                             BOOT TIME
hugo0122-zpabu  morning-rain-jikpfy3t.fra.unikraft.app  running  1 minute ago  hugo0122@sha256:68d20fdb707076b1cd0f2848b17cc75670d8a...  512 MiB  1      /usr/bin/hugo server --bind=...  77166us

When done, you can remove the instance:

Customize your app

To customize the Hugo app, update the files in the repository, listed below:

Kraftfile: the Unikraft Cloud specification
site/: sample site content
Dockerfile: In case you need to add files to your instance's rootfs

Update the contents of the site/ directory to serve different static web content.

After re-deploying the Hugo image on Unikraft Cloud, using curl or a browser to query it will present the new page contents.

Tools like Jekyll or Hugo can generate the static web content located in the site/ offline.

Learn more

Use the --help option for detailed information on using Unikraft Cloud:

Or visit the CLI Reference or the legacy CLI Reference.

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Last modified on April 10, 2026

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