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Deploy PRs to S3

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Deploy PRs to S3

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Deploy PRs to S3

Automatically deploy built PR bundles to an S3 static website and set up deployments for each PR

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Deploy PRs to S3

uses: brokenhandsio/s3-website-pr-action@v2.0.2

Learn more about this action in brokenhandsio/s3-website-pr-action

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Actions - s3-website-pr-action ๐Ÿš€

Automatically deploy built PR bundles to an S3 static website

Example

Usage ๐Ÿ“

See Vapor's Website for an example application using this action.

PR opened or updated:

name: PR

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]

build:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Create Site
        run: |
          swift build

      - name: Deploy S3 Website
        uses: brokenhandsio/s3-website-pr-action@v2
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        with:
          bucket-prefix: "vapor-website-pulls"
          folder-to-copy: "./Output"
          bucket-region: "eu-west-2"

Execute the s3-website-pr-action action on pull request opened, synchronize and reopened events. This will create a new S3 static site and upload the contents of folder-to-copy. The site url will be posted as a deployment on the pull request.

Note: By default, workflows using the pull_request activity type will include the above events. Docs

Required Environment Variables

Environment Variable Description
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS Access Key ID of an IAM user
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS Secret Access Key of an IAM user
GITHUB_TOKEN GitHub automatically provides the secret value

Required Parameters

Parameter Description
bucket-prefix Prefix to the S3 bucket name
folder-to-copy The directory to your built web app. This folder will be copied to S3
bucket-region Region to deploy the S3 bucket into

Optional Parameters

Parameter Description
environment-prefix Prefix to the GitHub Deployment. Defaults to 'PR-'

PR closed:

name: PR - Closed

on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [ main ]
    types: [ closed ]

build:
  runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - name: Delete Website Bucket
        uses: brokenhandsio/s3-website-pr-action@v2
        with:
          bucket-prefix: "vapor-website-pulls"
          bucket-region: "eu-west-2"
      env:
        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Execute the s3-website-pr-action action on pull request closed events. This will remove the S3 bucket that was created in the previous stage.

Required Environment Variables

Environment Variable Description
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS Access Key ID of an IAM user
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS Secret Access Key of an IAM user
GITHUB_TOKEN GitHub automatically provides the secret value

Required Parameters

Parameter Description
bucket-prefix Prefix to the S3 bucket name. This should be the same value as the other stage
bucket-region Region to deploy the S3 bucket into

Optional Parameters

Parameter Description
environment-prefix Prefix to the GitHub Deployment. Defaults to 'PR-'
folder-to-copy The directory to your built web app. This folder will be copied to S3
index-document The index document for the S3 bucket. Defaults to 'index.html'
error-document The error document for the S3 bucket. Defaults to 'error.html'

IAM ๐Ÿ”

Required IAM permissions for this action.

Replace <YOUR_BUCKET_PREFIX> with the same bucket-prefix value that you defined in your workflows.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:CreateBucket",
                "s3:DeleteBucket",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:PutBucketWebsite",
                "s3:PutObjectAcl",
                "s3:ListBucket"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::<YOUR_BUCKET_PREFIX>-*",
            ]
        }
    ]
}

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License