This tutorial will show you how to setup basic Continuous Deployment for a Hugo (static site generator) in AWS using s3, and cloudfront. Open Gitlab Project settings for the repository that contains your Hugo Site. Add variables above with the corresponding values from your AWS environment. Add a .gitlab-ci.yml to the root directory of your repository and add the following: The below is a basic Continuous Deployment pipeline intended to deploy your static site on a merge to master.