Published: May 17, 2020 by Noe Nieto
Ever since I learned about GitHub Actions, I’m trying to automate anything I can. This time I automated the deployment of my personal webpage. It’s very easy, just checkout and upload the changes using rsync.
name: Deploy my site
on:
push:
branches: [ master ]
pull_request:
branches: [ master ]
jobs:
build_and_deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: GitHub Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v1
- name: Rsync the build
uses: Pendect/action-rsyncer@v1.1.0
env:
DEPLOY_KEY: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }}
with:
options: '--exclude-from=.rsyncexclude --delete-excluded'
src: .
# Remote server and path. i.e user@server.com:/var/www/server.com/
dest: ${{ secrets.RSYNC_DEST }}
Since we are using rsync, I could take advantage of the --exclude-from and
--delete-excluded options to remove unwanted things on the server.
The secrets variable is provided by the GH action runner. To define the
secrets, you need to go to Settings->Secrets on your repo. Read the
documentation
for the full details.
Credits
Cover Photo by Alvaro Reyes on Unsplash