Update Google Cloud Storage by Using Github Actions

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My PC is not around recently, so it is a problem to update my blog. I have to use ssh to connect to my PC located at my home, and use vim or remote desktop, and run hugo deploy. It’s not elegant, so I need to come up with a better solution.

It’s enough to edit markdown with my Android tablet(use Spck Editor APP(not ad :) , or code-server in Termux native), so the problem is how to run hugo --minify && hugo deploy. Well, Termux navtive can do hugo server and hugo --minify, but here is no google-cloud-cli.(updated it does have)

So, let’s look at Github Actions. It’s really powerful and convenient😍.

Create Github Actions

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In the repository page, select Actions, create a new workflow

name: hugo auto deploy

# When
on:
  push:
    branches: [ main ]

# env 
# google-github-actions needs the permissions.
jobs:
  setup-deploy:
    name: Setup and Deploy
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: 'read'
      id-token: 'write'
    steps:

# checkout and get submodule
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@v4
      with:
        submodules: true
      
    - name: "google-cloud-login"
      uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v2'
      with:
        credentials_json: '${{ secrets.GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS }}'

    - name: "setup cloud sdk"
      uses: 'google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v2'

# hugo env
    - name: Setup Hugo
      uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v3

# hugo compile and deploy
    - run: hugo --minify
    - run: hugo deploy

Configure Google Cloud

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If you have just triggered Actions directly, an error will be reported in the log as expected. Now, let’s fix the error step by step.

Generate Google Cloud Service Key

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Go to Google Cloud Console, enter IAM&Admin，select Service accounts, and CREATE SERVICE ACCOUNT

Grant Access Permission

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Enter PERMISSIONS, click GRANT ACCESS，New principals is what you have just created. Assign role with Storage Object Admin.

Configure Github Actions Secrets

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Back to Github, enter Settings in the repository. Select Secrets and variables, select Actions, click New repository secrets,Name is GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS，Secret is the content of JSON that you have just got from Google Cloud. Just copy all content into it.

Try Actions Again

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It would done successfully now.