Project Page: GitHub-Sync

Project Introduction

I work in Azure DevOps daily to deploy resources using Azure using pipelines. Therefore, I have a high familiarity with using Azure DevOps for deployments and build both personal and professional projects in the environment. However, I also want to be able to share my personal projects more widely using GitHub, since it is a more recognized tool for this purpose. I also want to consolidate all of my projects in one place (GitHub), regardless of whether they were built using Azure DevOps.

The need to sort blog posts

As I have been adding more blog posts, I realized that I needed to start sorting them by category, to make finding relevant articles in the future easier. Fortunately, with a little research, the answer to this was pretty straightforward.

Add a taxonomy section to hugo.toml

Within the hugo.toml file, I added the following section after [“params”]:

[taxonomies]
  category = "categories"
  tag = "tags"

This gives me the option to do both categorization and add tags in the future. For now I just added categories, since I don’t have a search functionality on my side. If I add search later though, having the option to implement tags will be helpful.

Customizing a profile page within the hugo site.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve worked on the Hugo site. However, I came back to it today to work on building out the Portfolio page that I created as a placeholder in the past, to get this site closer to something I’d be more comfortable sharing with the world. I started by filling out details within the placeholder markdown file I created before. Here were my goals: