Best strategy to deploy static site to s3 on github push? [closed]

I had the same goal some time ago and have now released a little tool, which solves the problem at least for me. It uses AWS Lambda and deploys a specific branch of the repository to S3 after push. You can take full advantage of the GitHub deploy key, which has fewer permissions as personal access tokens and can be configured per repository.

Please take a look at github-bucket, it might help you too.

Rather than using an AWS service directly (as you say they nearly all expect a much more complicated setup, deploying to EC2 etc), you might be better off using a CI provider such as Shippable, Codeship or Wercker.

These all have the ability to fire from git updates, run build commands, install utilities into their CI images/containers and copy files to S3.

There's probably some startup which has built an exact tool for your purpose, but they haven't appeared on my radar yet :-)

I know it's not git deploy.... But Instead of setting up a CI box, I just used s3cmd.

http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Executing this command syncs my build directory with s3.

s3cmd sync -r ~/code/mysite/build s3://www.mysite.com --delete-removed

I'm using it on Linux. Not sure what their OSX and Windows stories are.

If you're really after a git push solution, you could set up a timed job which pulls your git repo to a folder and then executes this against it. I do this elsewhere on a cheap Linux VM. Unless you're going to go full CI though, there's probably not much point.