[DRAFT] Deploy Develop Branch to Testing on PR Merge [#592]

[aluhrs]

📝 Description

We would like to set up Github Actions to automatically deploy so that this is no longer a manual step and the site is more up to date

🔂 Changes Made

When a PR is merged into the develop branch, the changes are automatically deployed to the testing server.

⚙️ Related Issue

• Issue Number: Deployment automation pipeline using Github Actions #592

🍏 Type of Change

• New task

🎁 Acceptance Criteria

• When a branch is merged in develop, the following is completed:

1. SSH into DreamHost server
2. Navigate to appropriate directory for "server", for example "testing.techtonica.org"
3. Activate the virtual environment: source bin/activate
4. Change to the source directory: cd techtonica/
5. Pull the latest code using git pull
6. Update the requirements by running pip-sync (or pip install -r requirements.txt)
7. Stop and start the gunicorn process

  systemctl --user stop gunicorn_testing
  systemctl --user enable gunicorn_testing
  systemctl --user restart gunicorn_testing

🧰 New Environment Variables or Requirements

Three new repository secrets were added so the workflow can ssh into the server and perform necessary operations.

🧪 How to test

Testing will require merging this PR and doing trial and error to see if it works and fixing issues as needed. I'm open to another way of testing this!

✅ Checklist

• HOLD UNTIL: The python upgrade is complete on the server as it may change the virtual environment location
• DECIDE: If we should use a new username for this workflow
• TODO: Update documentation to reflect change in process

[monikkaelyse]

New python virtualenv command for testing is

source testing/bin/activate

@aluhrs

[monikkaelyse]

This line
pip-sync || pip install -r requirements.txt
Can probably just be
pip-sync

[aluhrs]

Updated the python virtualenv command for testing