There's really not much to automate. The Gitlab CI/CD config file to build Hugo and publish to Pages is always the same so I just re-use it as boilerplate. Like

There's really not much to automate. The Gitlab CI/CD config file to build Hugo and publish to Pages is always the same so I just re-use it as boilerplate. Likewise the Netlify config is usually the same as well, so once you've learned that syntax and structure it's not much work to put in place. I always like to peruse the latest Hugo free themes before I start and I usually end up using a new theme for each site anyway. The only real patterns in terms of organization is making sure I categorize and tag each post in a detailed manner. Most issues are related to a certain piece of the project or tech used, so when you know for example that your issue is related to the database then you can look at all posts categorized or tagged in a similar way to see if you already addressed the issue. I do find the most helpful step I took was making sure the post had a nice meaningful title with the proper keywords - that helps keep you from reading multiple posts until you find the one you need. Hugo and Gitlab's CI/CD are really great but the open source Netlify CMS is the key to making this setup so easy and remote only.