Continuous Integration: GitHub Actions

Documentation Hosting: GitHub Pages

Setup GitHub Pages

We will be hosting our documents on GitHub Pages. In order to start hosting to GitHub Pages you must first create a GitHub Pages site if you haven’t set it up before.

Generate Docs

We have to execute quite a number of commands in order to generate the docs. To make this process easier let’s create a Makefile.

.PHONY: help docs
.DEFAULT_GOAL := help

define PRINT_HELP_PYSCRIPT
import re, sys

for line in sys.stdin:
    match = re.match(r'^([a-zA-Z_-]+):.*?## (.*)$$', line)
    if match:
        target, help = match.groups()
        print("%-20s %s" % (target, help))
endef
export PRINT_HELP_PYSCRIPT

help:
    @python -c "$$PRINT_HELP_PYSCRIPT" < $(MAKEFILE_LIST)

docs: ## generate Sphinx HTML documentation, including API docs
    rm -f docs/python_lifecycle_training*.rst
    rm -f docs/modules.rst
    sphinx-apidoc -o docs/ python_lifecycle_training
    $(MAKE) -C docs clean
    $(MAKE) -C docs html
    $(BROWSER) docs/_build/html/index.html

Sample Configuration

name: Documentation

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  document:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: "3.x"

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install sphinx-rtd-theme toml

      - name: Generate Docs
        run: make docs

      - name: Deploy docs to GitHub Pages
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: docs/_build/html
          allow_empty_commit: true
          keep_files: true

Create one more pull request and merge your changes to master. Check the actions tab once your changes have been merged.

Once the Documentation test passes do the following:

Go to your project Settings
Go to GitHub Pages section
Set your Source to Branch: gh-pages
Click Save
You can now visit https://sp-95.github.io/python-lifecycle-training to view the documentation

Add a badge

.. image:: https://github.com/sp-95/python-lifecycle-training/workflows/Documentation/badge.svg
    :target: https://sp-95.github.io/python-lifecycle-training/
    :alt: Documentation

Next Step

To move on to the next step commit or stash your changes then checkout to the branch deploy/ci/release

$ git stash
$ git checkout deploy/ci/release