Simple automated deployment

With Jekyll, Github, Travis-CI and Amazon S3. Presented at a monthly Tech Workshop for campus IT staff at UC Santa Cruz on March 26, 2015.

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1. Make life easier with automated deployment
3. I was editing that file you just uploaded to the server.
4. Front-end version control consisted of: hoping no one else was editing the file you were about to upload to the server. 2008
6. What we need • Make deployment easy • Facilitate team collaboration • Automate repetitive tasks • Enforce a trusted process
7. Implementation Feature or Bug fix Shrink this distance
9. Project details • Unique design • Short turnaround • Plenty of stakeholders • Display data from events calendar • Focus on agility
10. Decided on • Jekyll for building the site • Github for source control • Amazon S3 for hosting the site
11. Transform plain text into static websites. http://jekyllrb.com
13. s3_website, a Ruby gem to sync website files https://rubygems.org/gems/s3_website
14. Collaboration, code review, and code management for projects. https://github.com
15. $ jekyll serve —watch $ s3_website push Trung Deployment Amazon S3
16. $ git commit -a -m "Change font to Comic Sans" $ git push origin master Trung Rob $ git pull origin master $ git commit -a -m "Change font back" $ git push origin master Version Control
17. Trung Rob $ git commit -a -m "Add unicorns" $ git push origin master $ git commit -a -m "Add unicorns" $ git push origin master Version Control
18. Trung Rob $ git commit -a -m "Remove Rob's unicorns" $ git push origin master $ git (fix merge conflict) Version Control
19. Deployment did not rely on version control, making it easy to deploy the site without committing changes to Github.
20. I need to update the site and you're not here to push your code to Github.
21. How do we couple version control and deployment in an unobtrusive way?
22. Focus on writing code. Let Travis CI take care of running your tests and deploying your apps. https://travis-ci.org
23. Trung Amazon S3 Trung Rob +
24. Amazon S3 Trung Rob Commit Build and Deploy Serve
25. Amazon S3 Trung Rob Commit Build and Oops, fail Serve
26. Amazon S3
27. Amazon S3
28. How do I get this magic cloud-based goodness?
29. + Step 1 Login to travis-ci.org with your Github account.
30. Step 2 Tell Travis to watch a public* Github repository.
31. Step 3 Describe your environment and build (and test) process in a .travis.yml file in your repository.
32. Step 4 Push your local code changes to Github. Travis gets notified, runs the process outlined in your .travis.yml file.
33. A closer look at the configuration file, .travis.yml
34. Time for a brief demo.
36. We could do even more.
37. Other Possibilities • Drupal theme deployment • Testing! • Databases in the tests! • Browser testing! • I don't know, it's Linux in the cloud!
38. References • Static website deployment to Amazon S3 with Travis-CI
 http://www.paperplanes.de/2013/8/13/deploying-your- jekyll-blog-to-s3-with-travis-ci.html • Travis-CI documentation
 http://docs.travis-ci.com/