Write a blog post about our /test-this-pr infrastructure

[choldgraf]

Proposed change

@sgibson91 recently did a lot of cool work to improve our automated testing infrastructure for Binder deploys. She mentioned that she would like to write up a blog post about the implementation and the things that she learned along the way. This is an issue to track and hopefully help get it done :-)

I think that this would be of interest for the jupyter blog, as it might also help other BinderHub / JupyterHub deployers learn about how to accomplish similar things for their infrastructure.

[sgibson91]

I am drafting this here: https://hackmd.io/@sgibson91/rJrc5aKEt

[minrk]

btw, I've been using this quite a bit this week to test the consequences of some PRs, and it is absolutely wonderful.

[choldgraf]

I took a pass through the blog post and made a few edits and additions, I think it's really nicely written! I'd be +1 on posting this to the Jupyter Blog once you are happy w/ the content

[sgibson91]

Thanks @choldgraf!

If anyone has recommendations for titles, I'm all ears! 😁

[choldgraf]

A bit long but how about

How I automated authorized cloud deployments from PRs with GitHub Actions

[sgibson91]

I submitted the hackmd contents to blog.jupyter.org to be reviewed! 🚀

[sgibson91]

Does anyone have admin rights to the medium account to review and publish this?

[choldgraf]

I have the ability to post there. Unless anybody suggests we should do otherwise, I'll plan to do the following:

• Today, give it a quick review and make sure there isn't anything major to change
• If we're good to go, publish on Monday morning

[choldgraf]

Just a note that I took another look at the draft and I think that it is good to go! In case anybody else would like to look, you can find it here:

https://blog.jupyter.org/how-i-automated-authorised-cloud-deployments-from-pull-requests-with-github-actions-13f890538e32

[sgibson91]

I like the image you added @choldgraf, though this one actually shows the complete workflow (from jupyterhub/mybinder.org-deploy#2044)

[choldgraf]

ah perfect @sgibson91 - thanks very much :-) I will update the image and post today

[choldgraf]

Update: post is published!

• Link to blog post: https://blog.jupyter.org/how-i-automated-authorised-cloud-deployments-from-pull-requests-with-github-actions-13f890538e32
• Link to tweet about it: https://twitter.com/mybinderteam/status/1462852107787251712

Thanks so much @sgibson91 for your work on this, and for the follow-up post!