This simple action uses the vanilla AWS CLI to sync a directory (either from your repository or generated during your workflow) with a remote S3 bucket.
If enabled, the action will add an HTML-formatted timestamp to the end of a specified file.
Once deployed, the action will invalidate the cloudfront distribution cache for your S3 static site.
Place in a .yml
file such as this one in your .github/workflows
folder. Refer to the documentation on workflow YAML syntax here.
As of v0.3.0, all aws s3 sync
flags are optional to allow for maximum customizability (that's a word, I promise) and must be provided by you via args:
.
--acl public-read
makes your files publicly readable (make sure your bucket settings are also set to public).--follow-symlinks
won't hurt and fixes some weird symbolic link problems that may come up.- Most importantly,
--delete
permanently deletes files in the S3 bucket that are not present in the latest version of your repository/build. - Optional tip: If you're uploading the root of your repository, adding
--exclude '.git/*'
prevents your.git
folder from syncing, which would expose your source code history if your project is closed-source. (To exclude more than one pattern, you must have one--exclude
flag per exclusion. The single quotes are also important!)
name: Upload Website
on:
push:
branches:
- master
jobs:
deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@master
- uses: jsjohnstone/s3-site-deploy@master
with:
args: --acl public-read --follow-symlinks --delete --exclude '.git/*'
env:
AWS_S3_BUCKET: ${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET }}
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
AWS_REGION: 'eu-west-2' # optional: defaults to us-east-1
AWS_CF_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_CF_ID }} # optional: enables cloudfront distribution invalidation
APPEND_FILE: 'index.html' # optional: enables timestamp appending to specified file
The following settings must be passed as environment variables as shown in the example. Sensitive information, especially AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
, should be set as encrypted secrets — otherwise, they'll be public to anyone browsing your repository's source code and CI logs.
Key | Value | Suggested Type | Required | Default |
---|---|---|---|---|
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID |
Your AWS Access Key. More info here. | secret env |
Yes | N/A |
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY |
Your AWS Secret Access Key. More info here. | secret env |
Yes | N/A |
AWS_S3_BUCKET |
The name of the bucket you're syncing to. For example, jarv.is or my-app-releases . |
secret env |
Yes | N/A |
AWS_REGION |
The region where you created your bucket. Set to us-east-1 by default. Full list of regions here. |
env |
No | us-east-1 |
AWS_S3_ENDPOINT |
The endpoint URL of the bucket you're syncing to. Can be used for VPC scenarios or for non-AWS services using the S3 API, like DigitalOcean Spaces. | env |
No | Automatic (s3.amazonaws.com or AWS's region-specific equivalent) |
SOURCE_DIR |
The local directory (or file) you wish to sync/upload to S3. For example, public . Defaults to your entire repository. |
env |
No | ./ (root of cloned repository) |
DEST_DIR |
The directory inside of the S3 bucket you wish to sync/upload to. For example, my_project/assets . Defaults to the root of the bucket. |
env |
No | / (root of bucket) |
AWS_CF_ID |
The ID of a Cloudfront Distribution to invalidate. | secret env |
No | N/A |
APPEND_FILE |
Name of a file to append timestamp/Github commit hash to before deployment (useful for checking cache invalidation has succeeded). | env |
No | N/A |
This project is distributed under the MIT license.