30.6.21 Wednesday
For the first few iterations of this blog I relied on what was a pretty good solution. It was an interesting CLI tool called s3_website which did a pretty solid job of getting all your files in Jekyll wrapped up with a bow. When I restarted the blog earlier this week, I had tried to use the tool again, but it turns out that the project has been deprecated and I would have to start troubleshooting.
Player AWS S3 has entered the game
Turns out the regular AWS CLI has made leaps and bounds since I last took a look at it, and it can more than handle the task natively. You just need the following few lines in a shell script and it builds the whole jekyll site and deploys the changes, no problem:
echo "Clean previous build"
jekyll clean
echo "Building blog"
jekyll build
echo "Deploying blog to s3"
aws s3 sync _site s3://<yourbucketname>