Doc: decap-cms

[cdod]

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Hi,
I will use a stack decap-cms + hugo to create a static website for a client. I want my client to be fully independant to adapt content so I need to fully automatize the update.
Is there any way to connect decap-cms to your hosting tools and services ?

[juliamrch]

Hi @cdod thanks for the issue, I will look into it and document it if appropriate.

[juliamrch]

Hi @cdod!
As promised, I looked into Decap CMS, very cool project. I've deployed a demo on Clever Cloud using Gitlab as a backend for user auth. So far, I've simply created a Hugo site and added the two configuration files in /static/admin. You can check them here. There is nothing special to do, you just need choose a backend, set up the file, then deploy Hugo on Clever Cloud and access the CMS on /admin path of your site.

I tried using a self-hosted instance, but something in Decap backend keeps wanting to use gitlab.com API endpoints 👺

For GitHub auth, I think something could be done using GitHub apps instead of Netlify providers, or Clever Cloud Auth provider, or even Keycloak add-on. Sky is the limit.

I don't think we will document it because following Decap doc and the Hugo guide on ours should be enough.