Using Gitlab CI For VPS and Neocites Deployment

I’ll make this one short: Deploying to a VPS is pretty easy when its already configured with Nginx to serve static content, but Neocities is a slight worse pain. Several scripts later I’ve figured out how to 100% automate pushing to both.

Docker

A few notes about this docker file:

Could be made way smaller if using Alpine
Setting up Pandoc on alpine is way more effort on Alpine because you have to compile it yourself as its not in the official Alpine repos
gensite is a script I wrote for building markdown based sites with Pandoc with 0 deps

FROM debian:sid-slim

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git pandoc
# For more easily logging into ionos
RUN apt-get install -y sshpass
RUN apt-get install -y curl

RUN git clone https://gitlab.com/shockrah/site-generator /tmp/gensite
RUN cd /tmp/gensite && ./install.sh g
RUN rm -rf /tmp/gensite

Gitlab’s CI Script

It should be noted there are more environment variables set in Gitlab’s WebUI to make this script work but basically everything is there.

image: shockrah/website:1.3

stages:
  - build
  - deploy

variables:
  SHOPTS: "-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no"


before_script:
  - eval $(ssh-agent -s)
  - echo "${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY}" | ssh-add - > /dev/null
  - mkdir -p ~/.ssh/
  - chmod 700 ~/.ssh/

build-site:
  stage: build

  script:
    bash ./build.sh

  artifacts:
    expire_in: 10 mins
    paths: ["./.mirror"]

deploy-vps:
  stage: deploy

  script:
    - ssh $SHOPTS root@shockrah.xyz "rm -rf /var/www/website"
    - scp $SHOPTS -r .mirror root@shockrah.xyz:/var/www/website/

deploy-neocities:
  stage: deploy

  script:
    # First the html
    - bash upload.sh -h
    # then we do the media files
    - bash upload.sh -M