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+date: '2024-10-08T15:33:49-07:00'
+title: Easier Updates Finally
+description: Back on track to updating things normally
+thumbnail: null
+article: true
+---
+
+# On Updating this Site
+
+For a while now I've been updating this whole site manually since I took down my
+old Fargate + S3 infrastructure. Even though that made updating the site super
+easy it did mean that I was basically totally vendor locked and switching to a
+new provider like Vultr was a massive pain.
+
+Now that I have my own Git server and CI/CD with that Git server I have a setup
+that let's me comfortably update my stuff without being totally locked into
+someone else's CI stuff. Gitlab is great but I really wanted my own thing
+so now I'm on Gitea basically.
+
+## Ergonomics of the new pipeline
+
+Because Gitea uses the same type of workflow files as Github I can literally
+do the following:
+
+```yaml
+name: Build and Deploy Resume Site
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+jobs:
+  setup-website-content:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: shockrah/hugo
+    steps:
+      - run: git init
+      - run: git remote add origin https://git.shockrah.xyz/shockrah/temper-tv.git
+      - run: git pull origin master
+      - name: Build website content
+        run: cd main-site && pwd && ls -a && hugo
+      - name: Copy files with rsync
+        uses: tempersama/rsync-copy@2.6
+        with:
+          host: shockrah.xyz
+          username: ${{ secrets.USER }}
+          source: "main-site/public/"
+          destination: /opt/nginx/temper.tv/
+          key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
+
+```
+
+General steps are basically ( per pipeline run ):
+
+* Clone the repo
+* Run `hugo` to build all the content
+* Copy files over using rsync Github action that I wrote myself
+
+The last part was a bit tricky to get working with Gitea in a container,
+acceptable key distribution, and user administration.
+Ended up working out and now I have my own Github action for Rsync which is pretty neat.
+
+> Wait why not just ansible/scp?
+
+I'm not using ansible because I'm just copying files... I don't need such a
+massive tool to accomplish that; even if I do have an
+[ansible dockerhub image](https://hub.docker.com/r/shockrah/ansible) that works.
+While I could in theory keep a super up to date and clean transfer flow with
+Ansible... this is a short meme blog that doesn't need that much engineering :)
+
+I tried SCP ( and it worked ) but I ran into the issue that SCP doesn't copy
+directory trees which makes copying static site structures super annoying.
+
+> You could tar the site then scp that over!
+
+Yes... and end up scp'ing a hugo tarball every single time... no thanks
+data transfer rates are already bad enough as it is.
+
+
+## Going Forward
+
+Now that I have keys and a simple dev setup on windows ( where I game/stream from )
+it should be super easy to actually update this site without having to 
+constantly hop between Windows/Linux all the time. So here's to lost of fun &
+easy updates in the future :partying_face:
+