mkdocs-demo

Example project for creating/deploying a MkDocs website with GitHub Actions.

live environments

integration

temporary environments are created/destroyed with pull request open/close

url: posted to the pull request for review
status:

development

url: http://factually-settled-boxer-development.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
status:

production

url: http://factually-settled-boxer.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com
status:

local development

ex: run server with 'dev/local' site variables
make serve env=dev region=local

ex: run server with 'dev/us-east-1' site variables
make serve env=dev region=us-east-1

ex: run server with 'prod/us-east-1' site variables
make serve env=prod region=us-east-1

prerequisites

• install docker and Make (for local development)
• set up OIDC provider in AWS console
  • Use OpenID Connect within your workflows to authenticate with Amazon Web Services.
• create S3 bucket for static website hosting
• create supporting cicd resources (S3 bucket for site artifacts and IAM roles for GitHub Action workflows to assume)

infrastructure (onetime setup)

see terraform code in infra/ for example on how to create required resources. ntno/tf-module-static-site-cicd is used to create CICD IAM roles and artifact bucket.

make ubuntu
cd infra
make plan
make apply

• creates development and production site buckets
• creates IAM roles to support github action workflows