GitHub-actions for hugo deployments

Dec 26, 2020 automation

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Overview

How I setup github-actions to deploy my site to s3 on commit to main. I was already using hugo, hosted on S3 with route53, cloudfront and https. This post is specific to automated deployments.

References

Using GitHub Actions and Hugo Deploy to Deploy a Static Site to AWS
GitHub Actions for Hugo

High-level details

added aws secrets to github
setup new limited access in AWS

added new IAM user "githubcicd" and using access keys on this user
added new IAM policy "GitHubActionsPolicy", limited access to s3,cloudfront

added deployment config in config.toml

name
s3 url
cloudFrontDistributionID

added resources required to build in github

assets/scss
resources/_gen/assets/sass

added file to automate deployment

.github/workflows/main.yaml