Enable PR preview for Hugo site changes

[edithturn]

Hi team,

I’d like to suggest enabling preview deployments for pull requests in the percona/community Hugo site.

At the moment, reviewers often need to pull a PR locally and run hugo serve to check how blog posts or other content changes look rendered in the browser. While this works well for local development, adding PR previews would make review much easier.

In current PRs, I noticed:

• A required Build check is expected
• Some workflow runs complete with no jobs
• The PR shows no deployments
• There is no preview link for the rendered page

This makes it harder to validate layout, formatting, images, and final page rendering before merging.

Suggestion
Could we add PR preview deployments using one of these options?

• Cloudflare Pages
• Netlify Deploy Previews
• Vercel
  or a GitHub Actions custom preview flow

Example:

That would let reviewers open a preview URL directly from the PR without needing to run the site locally.

It may also be worth reviewing the current Build check configuration, since GitHub can still expect that check even when the related workflow does not run any jobs.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks!

[ImTheKai]

Given we are already using render, would there be any additional cost attached? As otherwise, I would go with Netlify, but if we can simply use render, as this is being paid already, this would be the easiest.

[dbazhenov]

We had this before with Render (as in the documentation), but it didn't reduce the number of errors made by contributors.
In addition, they will have to fix the errors themselves if there are any.

In general, contributors should not worry about Actions, Builds, and other backend issues.

Furthermore, errors are often not obvious, such as an incorrect image file name.

If a contributor has sent a PR, that's great, I'll accept, merge it and fix it.