ngquerol / zola-deploy-action

Github action for building a Zola site and deploying to Github Pages

Zola Deploy Action

A GitHub action to automatically build and deploy your zola site to the master branch as GitHub Pages.

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Secrets
• Custom Domain

Usage

on: push
name: Build and deploy on push
jobs:
  build:
    name: shalzz/zola-deploy-action
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: shalzz/zola-deploy-action
      uses: shalzz/zola-deploy-action@master
      env:
        PAGES_BRANCH: gh-pages
        BUILD_DIR: docs
        BUILD_FLAGS: --drafts
        TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}

Secrets

• TOKEN: Personal Access key with the appropriate scope. If the repository is public the public_repo scope suffices, for private repositories the full repo scope is required. We need this to push the site files back to the repo.

  ( Actions already provides a GITHUB_TOKEN which is an installation token and does not trigger a GitHub Pages builds hence we need a personal access token )

Environment Variables

• PAGES_BRANCH: The git branch of your repo to which the built static files will be pushed. Default is master branch
• BUILD_DIR: The path from the root of the repo where we should run the zola build command. Default is . (current directory)
• BUILD_FLAGS: Custom build flags that you want to pass to zola while building. (Be careful supplying a different build output directory might break the action).

Custom Domain

If you're using a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site put the CNAME in static/CNAME so that zola puts it in the root of the public folder which is where GitHub expects it to be.