Finish and publish statuspage post

Signed-off-by: Harsh Shandilya <msfjarvis@gmail.com>

content/posts/creating-a-continuously-deploying-static-statuspage-with-github.md

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 categories = ["webdev"]
 date = 2020-02-05T10:39:26+05:30
-draft = true
 slug = "creating-a-continuously-deploying-static-statuspage-with-github"
 tags = ["webdev", "github actions", "github pages"]
 title = "Creating a continuously deploying static statuspage with GitHub"
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 ![CNAME file in repository](/uploads/statuspage_cname_file.png)
 
-- Finally, time to start creating our workflow for GitHub Actions. A quick glance at the static_status README will inform you about the `config` file that it uses to configure itself, and status_hostname_list.txt which has a list of all services it needs to check. `config` is easy to understand and modify, so I'll skip it (you can diff [mine](https://github.com/msfjarvis/status.msfjarvis.dev/blob/master/config) with upstream and use the changes to educate yourself should the need arise). Instead, I'll cover the `status_hostname_list.txt` file that gave me grief when I was setting this up.
+- A quick glance at the static_status README will inform you about the `config` file that it uses to configure itself, and status_hostname_list.txt which has a list of all services it needs to check. `config` is easy to understand and modify, so I'll skip it (you can diff [mine](https://github.com/msfjarvis/status.msfjarvis.dev/blob/master/config) with upstream and use the changes to educate yourself should the need arise). This part should be very straightforward, though I did encounter a problem where using `ping` as the detection mechanism caused sites to falsely report as down. Switching to `curl` resolved the issue.
+
+- Finally, time to add the automation to this whole thing. Any CI solution with a cron/schedule option will work, I used GitHub Actions, you don't have to. I set a schedule of once every 30 minutes, depending on what platform you're using for CD and what services you're hosting, you might want to choose a shorter period. Here's my GitHub Actions workflow.
+
+```yaml
+name: "Update status page"
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: "*/30 * * * *"
+  push:
+
+jobs:
+  update-status-page:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Install traceroute
+        run: sudo apt-get install traceroute -y
+      - name: Checkout config
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Checkout static_status
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          repository: Cyclenerd/static_status
+          path: static_status
+          clean: false
+      - name: Generate status page
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p static_status/status/
+          cp config static_status/
+          cp status_hostname_list.txt static_status/
+          cp CNAME static_status/status/
+          cd static_status/
+          rm status_maintenance_text.txt
+          ./status.sh
+
+      - name: Deploy
+        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v2
+        env:
+          PERSONAL_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_TOKEN }}
+          PUBLISH_BRANCH: gh-pages
+          PUBLISH_DIR: ./static_status/status
+          SCRIPT_MODE: true
+        with:
+          username: "MSF-Jarvis"
+          useremail: "msfjarvis+github_alt@gmail.com"
+```
+
+This installs `traceroute` which is needed by static_status, checks out my repository, clones static_status to the static_status directory, copies over config and hostname list to that folder, places the `CNAME` file in the static_status/status directory, runs the script to generate the status page, and finally publishes the static_status/status folder to the `gh-pages` branch, as my bot account.
+
+The result of this is a simple and fast statuspage that can be hosted anywhere by simply coping the single `index.html` over. If you have a separate server to run this off, you can get away with replacing this entire process with a single crontab command. Being a bash script lets static_status run on essentially any Linux-based platform so you can actually deploy this from a Raspberry Pi with no effort. Hope this helps you to create your own status pages!