Deploy Static Sites Github Action

It's scope is to create an automatic action which enables tenants to deploy their Static Sites using S3 and CloudFront.

Overview

The action :

• is assuming the AWS Role
• is uploading the files to an S3 bucket
• is setting the caching minimum time
• is clearing the CloudFront cache so new file versions can be retrieved

Using This Action

The action it's capturing the esential information as input variables.

The tenant must provide the below:

Input	Description	Required
assume-role-arn	Role assumed by the action	Yes
bucket-name	The name of the S3 Bucket.	Yes
working-directory	Relative path to the folder files will be uploaded from.	Yes
remote-path	Optional path prefix inside the S3 bucket where files will be synced.	No
extra-excludes	Optional comma-separated aws s3 sync --exclude patterns, for example compliance/*,docs/*.	No
cloudfront-distribution	ID Name of CloudFront Distribution.	Yes
cache-control-s-max-age	The time period contect is chached by CloudFront for. Default is 86400 seconds (24h).	No

Usage Example

      - name: Sync
        uses: UKHomeOffice/core-cloud-static-sites-action@main
        with:
          assume-role-arn: ${{ vars.role-arn }}
          cloudfront-distribution: ${{ vars.cloudfront-distribution }}
          bucket-name: ${{ vars.bucket_name }}
          working-directory: ./static-site
          remote-path: marketing/site
          extra-excludes: compliance/*,docs/*