A Lot of Effort¶

Instantly deploy static HTML sites to S3 at the command line.

I created this out of frustration, after spending a lot of effort trying to find a PyPI package that did this without problems.

Documentation¶

The full documentation is at http://alotofeffort.rtfd.org.

Install it:

pip install alotofeffort

Configure Boto the standard way in ~/.boto:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = ...
aws_secret_access_key = ...

Then use it to deploy a static HTML website to an S3 bucket:

$ alotofeffort www/ mybucket

Uses standard Boto configuration.
Prints the S3 endpoint URL after deploying.
Auto-configures the bucket to be a website, with all files public.
Only files that have changed get uploaded. Files are checked for changes by comparing the local and remote MD5 hashes of the files.
Never auto-deletes. In fact, it doesn’t delete files at all! (In the future, it will check if any files need to be deleted from S3, and prompt you before deleting anything.)