April 22, 2019

How I build my blog (part 2)

In the previous post, I showed how I have set up the build of the site. The process is incomplete without deployment. As already said, the deployment happens to AWS S3, and here is how: Deploy the site to AWS S3 Configure the S3 bucket Setup AWS Access and Secret keys Configure CloudFront to deliver the site Configure DNS routing Set up GitLab CI for S3 deployment Summary Deploy the site to AWS S3 I wrote a Gist for this task using BitBucket, Wercker (CI) and AWS S3 back in July 2017.

April 15, 2019

How I build my blog (part 1)

It has been some time since I started using Jekyll, because of my frustration with CMS like Blogger and WordPress. I picked up Jekyll and learned it because I wanted complete control over how I build my site, where I write some fiction (go, check it out if it interests you). I wanted to control the design, the content, the features, pretty much everything. The code is available on GitLab.