Using GitLab CI/CD to Build your Jekyll Site and Upload it to AWS S3
Hosting your Jekyll generated static web site or blog on Amazon’s S3 is a no brainer. And with GitLab’s CI/CD you can build and deploy it automatically.
.gitlab-ci.yml
This is my .gitlab-ci.yml for CoffeeShopDeveloper.com:
stages:
- build
- deploy
- cleanup
variables:
S3_BUCKET_NAME: "coffeeshopdeveloper.com"
buildJekyll:
image: ruby:2.6
stage: build
script:
- apt-get update -y # only because of error "Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2" on line..."
- apt-get install -y locales # "
- echo "en_US UTF-8" > /etc/locale.gen # "
- locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 # "
- export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 # "
- export LANGUAGE=en_US:en # "
- export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 # "
- bundle install
- bundle exec jekyll build -d _site
artifacts:
paths:
- _site
only:
- master
deployS3:
image: python:latest
stage: deploy
dependencies:
- buildJekyll
before_script:
- pip install awscli
script:
- aws s3 cp _site s3://$S3_BUCKET_NAME --recursive
environment:
name: live
url: http://${BUCKET_NAME}.s3-website.${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}.amazonaws.com
invalidateCloudFront:
image: python:latest
stage: cleanup
dependencies:
- deployS3
before_script:
- pip install awscli
script:
- aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id $CDN_DISTRIBUTION_ID --paths "/*"
See this great blog post by Riccardo Padovani for more details.
