Azure Devops: Recap Creating this Blog Site


A recap of the way this blog site is generated, built and deployed. The next two blog posts refer to this.

This site is a highly customised Jekyll siye. It has been running for a number of years with regular updates and new blog posts. There has been significant coding of its functionality including:

  • Meta-information wrt blog posts. Each post has one category. Also, posts have one or more tags which can be used for searching the site`
  • The main index page is in reverse chronological order and each post entry has the meta-information that can be clicked on
  • When a post’s category or one of tags is clicked, all posts of that category or tag are presented for slection.
  • When the site is built, an index file with links is geneerated for each category and for each tag found in posts.
  • New tags can be adhocly added when authoring pages, but categories are define on
  • There is a yaml file _data/sections.yml that is used for grouping posts. This is a fixed list but is similar to categories. There is a sidebar of these sections that can be expanded to reval all posts in a section.
  • The site uses a number of off-the-shelf plugins.
  • The site is authored in VS Code and can built and run locally there.
  • Content is reposited to Azure DevOps where it automatically built then released - Copied to Azure Blob Storage. Thre it become a Static Web Site in a https context.
  • As a footnote, the author receives an emial notification when the content is received by DevOps repository, when teh site is built/fails, and if built it is released.
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