https://liatas.com/tags/staging/Recent content in Staging on Chris LiatasHugoen-usWed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0300https://liatas.com/posts/hugo-firebase-preview-channels-gitlab-oidc/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0300https://liatas.com/posts/hugo-firebase-preview-channels-gitlab-oidc/<div class="headerclaim">This builds directly on <strong><a href="https://liatas.com/posts/hugo-ci-cd">Continuous Deployment for Hugo websites</a></strong> — the keyless GitLab OIDC + Workload Identity Federation setup. Read that first; here we add a staging preview on a separate branch.</div> <p>The <a href="https://liatas.com/posts/hugo-ci-cd">keyless deploy post</a> gets <code>main</code> → live Firebase Hosting with no stored secrets. The missing half is <strong>staging</strong>: previewing every change at a shareable URL <em>before</em> it goes live. Firebase Hosting <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/test-preview-deploy">preview channels</a> do exactly that — ephemeral, auto-expiring copies of your site, isolated from the live channel — and we can drive them from a <code>dev</code> branch using the <strong>same</strong> Workload Identity Federation (WIF), at no extra cost and with no new infrastructure.</p>