Use Travis CI To Deploy Jekyll To AWS S3

Beginning

Travis CI is a very good tool to help you auto-test and auto-deploy.

You can log in Travis CI with your Github account. https://travis-ci.org/ is for public repository, https://travis-ci.com/ is for private repository. Private repository may cost you a little fee.

Setup repository

Script Settings

Travis

Travis CI needs .travis.yml in your repository root to build and deploy the websites.

Below is what I use.

language: ruby
rvm:
  - 2.1
install: gem install jekyll -v 2.4.0 && gem install s3_website
script: jekyll build
after_success: s3_website push

install: gem install jekyll -v 2.4.0 && gem install s3_website is to install jekyll and s3_website.
s3_website can help you push files into AWS S3.
script: jekyll build is to build the site with Jekyll.
after_success: s3_website push is to copy everything you have to AWS S3.

AWS S3

s3_website needs a configuration to access your Amazon Web Service account. Simply create a s3_website.yml in repository root, and copy the code below into that file. Remember to change variables.

s3_id: fdsahfkjhaskjfhdas
s3_secret: fjsdafjashfkjdas
s3_bucket: weixia.info
cloudfront_distribution_id: fdsahjfkadhs

Environment Variables

This is the final step to set up environment variables in Travis CI.

Go to your repository setting page, under Environment Variables section, add s3_id, s3_secret, s3_bucket and cloudfront_distribution_id into name along with their values.

variables

Let it run

Every time you make any changes and commit them to Github repository, Travis CI will rebuild the sites and deploy it.

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