Pelican Autodeploy to S3 from Github

Billy Shin — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:00:00 GMT

Requirements

Use pelican-quickstart to setup your pelican environment. This will ask you and setup most of the basic variables you need for your automation.
Also setup a Github repo for the blog you are going to be hosting.
You should be able to test your blog using make devserver.
Get your secret and access key for that IAM account; save this you are gonna need to add it as env variables in your CircleCI.
Before you can do this, you should be able to already do make s3_upload on your local environment.
If you don't know how to point your DNS to a s3 bucket, that's in another post.

Step-by-step

Log into you github account.
Goto the marketplace to install CirclCI
Add your project to CircleCI Projects
Go to your "Setting->projects->(your repo)" and then find the "Environment Variables" tab, and add 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID' and 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'.
Make a ".circleci" folder, and inside that add a "config.yml" file.

Setting up your config.yml for CircleCI

version: 2
jobs:
  build:
    docker:
      - image: circleci/python:3.6.1

    working_directory: ~/repo

    steps:
      - checkout

      - run:
          name: install dependencies
          command: |
            sudo pip install pelican markdown awscli
            git clone https://github.com/Pelican-Elegant/elegant.git && pelican-themes --install elegant

      - deploy:
          name: deploying to s3
          command: |
            make html
            make s3_upload

I have added the git clone line for installing themes, but you are free to use your own, or if you are having weird issues, try starting without a theme.

Billy Shin (Posts about code)

Pelican Autodeploy to S3 from Github

Requirements

Step-by-step

Setting up your config.yml for CircleCI