Continuous Deployment using just Netlify

How to set up deployment of a Record Collector site using only Netlify.

The Netlify build-image is easy to work with and can run .NET 8.0 if you use this guide.

With this setup, Netlify pulls from a Git repository and does the build.

So no need to handle API keys and an external build agent any more.

You just use the built-in Netlify features to give access to your Git repository when adding your site.

Paths to use in configuration

First go to app.netlify.com and add or find your site. Find the section for Build & deploy and add an Environment variable. Set the key ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT and value to Netlify.

This means the config used will come from appsettings.Netlify.json and this is how I've configured the sample site in that file.

{
  "AppSettings": {
    "SiteUrl": "https://record-collector.netlify.app/",
    "ContentRootPath": "/opt/build/repo/content/demo-site/",
    "StaticSiteRootPath": "/opt/build/repo/artifacts/static-site/",
    "FrontendSetup": "default",
    "SectionsToExcludeFromLists": [ "pages", "sidor" ],
    "MainNavigationSections": [ "pages", "sidor" ],
    "PaginationPageCount": 2,
    "PaginationPageSize": 3
  }
}

Build settings in Netlify

These are settings that work well with the sample site.

Change default to simplecss if you are using the Simple CSS version.

The Shell script should have execute rights, if not, be in your local repository and run git update-index --chmod=+x netlify.build.default.sh or git update-index --chmod=+x netlify.build.simplecss.sh to set it.

This is such a great feature and really excited that it works this well with Record Collector! Thank you Netlify!