Best strategy to deploy static site to s3 on githu

Question

I'd like to automate deploying our site to AWS S3. I've written a node script to automate building and uploading the site, but I'd like to have the script automatically run whenever the master branch of our repo is updated on github.

I looked into AWS CodeDeploy, but it looks like that's for specifically deploying to EC2. I've also looked at AWS Lambda, but there doesn't seem to be a clear way to pull a copy of the repo using git so I can run the script.

Any services (preferably tied to AWS) that I can use?

Answer 1

If you are using TravisCI, the deployment is pretty straight forward. The only part you will need to add to your .travis.yml is :

deploy:                         
  provider: s3                         
  access_key_id: "YOUR AWS ACCESS KEY"
  secret_access_key:
    secure: "w/DlbHt1+IAMENCRYPTED"
  bucket: "YOUR BUCKET"

My blog post explains all the details for the AWS side (user setup, IAM and S3 bucket configurations) as well as the github and travisCI side.

Answer 2

Perhaps overpowered for your simple use case, but you could create a very simple CodePipeline to push your github repository to S3.