Run commands in codeship without vm for every commit in a branch - github

Question

I want to deploy my application in github page. I want the build job to be automated. My build commands basically include running unit tests,building a production version, gh-deploy command to deploy to github page. Can i achieve this using code ship. Do i require a actual vm like ec2 to do this?

Answer 1

The official automation process with codeship involves pushing to GitHub.
If your build process can populate the content you want to publish, then you can simply push it from the codeship job itself.
As an example, see "Auto-deploying to gh-pages with Codeship " (Martyn Chamberlin), which is about publishing a Gulp build:
git clone <the ssh link to your repo> dist
cd dist
git checkout gh-pages || git checkout --orphan gh-pages
cd ..
rm -rf dist/**/* || exit 0
npm install
gulp deploy
cd dist
git config user.email "<the email address you used for your machine user GitHub account>"
git config user.name "<the username you used for your machine user GitHub account>"
git add .
git commit -m "Deploy to GitHub Pages: ${CI_COMMIT_ID} --skip-ci"
git push origin gh-pages
This is a clever little set of commands, really.
It’s creating a git repo inside of another git repo in order to handle the build correctly.
I wish I could say I was the one who came up with this idea but the hat tip belongs to Domenic who gave me the idea with his Travis gist.
A few things to note about this:
This assumes that npm install; gulp deploy is the series of commands you use to combine and minify your assets.
That’s true of my project but yours may be different (particularly the second one). Be sure to replace lines 6 and 7 with your actual ones (as well as the values, of course).
This also assumes your output directory is dist. Hopefully it is, because that’s the convention, but if you’ve got something else, you’ll need to update lines 1, 2, and 8.
I’m completely bypassing Codeship’s recommendation of handling the final git push via their own provided code (“include the commands from continuous-deployments/git-push.sh”).
Not a big deal either way, I just don’t see the need for an extra HTTP request.