Sweat the small stuff! Script that itch you can’t scratch…

In this final post for a two-part series, we’ll go over an additional script that can be used to upload all local static site contents to a previously configured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.

Amazon Web Services, through their Simple Storage Service (S3), provide an inexpensive and flexible solution for hosting static websites. These would normally be sites that are developed on a local environment (using Hugo or Jekyll), then pushed to either a web server or - in this case - a cloud-based storage platform configured to make the generated pages public. This post discusses a scripted approach to building a bucket you want to use to host an S3 website from scratch.

Today we go over the process of writing a very simple Bash script. We’ll be able to detect whether a build for a Hugo static site is present, push the files to a Git repository for our website, and automate all the steps involved.

In this first part of a series on implementing a PHP/MySQL-based API endpoint for our data, we go over some basic principles, as well as stated goals, that will guide the work we’ll be undertaking later.