I've been a big fan of static site generation since I switched from WordPress to Jekyll back in 2018. I'm also a big fan of learning new technologies as they come along, and now GitHub Actions are out in the wild; I thought this would be an opportunity to see how I can port my existing custom CircleCI build to Jekyll.

A quick recap from part 5 - Hosting & Building, my CircleCI configuration was basically two jobs that have subsequently been tweaked since then. They are:

Azure Pipelines has been interesting to me especially given the generous free open source tier and seemingly instant availability of build agents. The setup is easy if you're building .NET targets with lots of useful starters available.

Some areas have been frustrating, specifically build variables, the difficulty in getting the app installed, and the limitations on triggers if you can't (non-GitHub apps can't be installed on Enterprise accounts even if FREE).