Azure DevOps AzureStaticWebApp: specifying Hugo version

I use Azure Static Web Apps in a couple of places, this blog and the Chordle site. While updating the templates they use, I found that the deployment builds started to break because the included Hugo version was out of date.

The first I fixed up was this blog. I was getting this error:

template: partials/func/getStylesBundle.html:4:90: executing “partials/func/getStylesBundle.html” at : can’t evaluate field Sass in type interface {}

This is deployed using GitHub actions, and I found this documentation helped me resolve it there - I simply had to add the Hugo version as an environment variable to the build task.

1    name: Build and Deploy Job
2    env:
3      HUGO_VERSION: '0.148.1' 

The Chordle site is deployed via Azure DevOps though, and the error I was getting there was:

error building site: failed to create resource spec: error expanding “/blog/:year/:month/:day/:contentbasename/”: permalink ill-formed

The breaking syntax is different due to the use of a completely different template.

The required changes to the task syntax aren’t described in the linked article. After a bit of playing around, I found that it was actually almost identical for the AzureStaticWebApp@0 task - just add an env value for the required HUGO_VERSION:

 1jobs:
 2- job: build_and_deploy_job
 3  displayName: Build and Deploy Job
 4  condition: or(eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'Manual'),or(eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'PullRequest'),eq(variables['Build.Reason'], 'IndividualCI')))
 5  pool:
 6    vmImage: ubuntu-latest
 7  variables:
 8  - group: Azure-Static-Web-Apps-variable-group
 9  steps:
10  - checkout: self
11    submodules: true
12  - task: AzureStaticWebApp@0
13    env:
14      HUGO_VERSION: '0.148.1' # <--------- Add this
15    inputs:
16      azure_static_web_apps_api_token: $(AZURE_STATIC_WEB_APPS_API_TOKEN)
17      app_location: "/" 
18      api_location: "" 
19      output_location: "public"

I hope that helps someone else!