I have setup CI/CD pipeline for my blog!

09/09/2021

I've setup CI/CD pipeline for my blog! And it's amazing!

For a context, the blog is a static site built with Gatsby. And, there is no CMS to manage the content from the "backend".

To be honest, now that I have set up the deployment pipeline, I don't need one in near future.

But I am feeling amazingly good about it!

If you ask me what is the difference?

Well, I used to publish my blog articles but now I commit them!

It's not a choice, it's a requirement.

In Gatsby, every article is a markdown formatted document.

To publish any article, we build the project and deploy the files.

So, unless there is a pipeline in place, you have to build the project every time after writing new content. Then upload the bundle in the assigned s3 bucket.

Now, all I have to do is to open the terminal:

git add . git commit -m "article names" git push origin bucket_name

That's all.

The AWS CodePipeline handles rest of the steps:

• The code is pushed into a AWS CodeCommit repository.
• Every new commit initiates a new build.
• Next, AWS CodeBuild runs the build command and creates an artifact.
• The Artefact is then pushed to s3 bucket.

Automated it all.

I am sure, I am not the only one to follow this path. But as a developer, looking at my blog now, it feels more complete.

Now I can focus only on the content because I have one less thing to worry about.

Thanks for reading!