Using the app with Github Actions

[thoresson]

Hi!

I want to deploy an 11ty static site to Cloudron, and if possible build it and deploy everytime I push new content to the sites Github repo. Is it possible to push to this app from a Github account, or is it only push from a local repo that's possible?

I think the later, and if I'm right: Is there any other way to push a build from a Github account to some other Cloudron app?

/Anders

[BrutalBirdie]

Yes you can, you need the cloudron-cli and a Cloudron token. Then you can use the cli in the action with the secret token to push the repo into the /app/data/<placeholder> app.

cloudron push --help
Usage: cloudron push [options] <local> <remote>

push a single local file or directory to a remote directory

Options:
  --app <id/location>  App id or location
  -h, --help           display help for command

  Examples:

    $ cloudron push --app myapp file.txt /app/data/file.txt # pushes file.txt
    $ cloudron push --app myapp file.txt /app/data/         # pushes file.txt. trailing slash is important
    $ cloudron push --app myapp dir /app/data               # pushes dir/* as /app/data/dir/*
    $ cloudron push --app myapp dir/. /app/data             # pushes dir/* as /app/data/*
    $ cloudron push --app myapp dir/subdir /app/data        # pushes dir/subdir/* as /app/data/subdir/*
    $ cloudron push --app myapp . /app/data                 # pushes .* as /app/data/*

[fbartels]

Since it is a static site you could also install surfer as the app serving your site and then use the surfer cli to deploy it. There are some examples for hugo based sites and surfer already on this forum.

[thoresson]

But both the cli solutions are to be run locally, from my desktop? Or could they be used on GitHub as well?

[fbartels]

Anything you can run on the cli you could also run in a ci system such as GitHub actions. Here is an example: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3678/build-deploy-to-cloudron-from-github-actions

[thoresson]

Ah, thanks! I’m just getting started with Git/Github, so wasn’t aware of that.