Continuous Deployment using just Netlify
How to set up deployment of a Record Collector site using only Netlify.
I was very happy to notice that the Netlify build-image now has the .NET 5.0.200 SDK installed.
For Record Collector this means that you can get deploys done where 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 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/docs/content-record-collector-net/",
"StaticSiteRootPath": "/opt/build/repo/artifacts/static-site/",
"ViewPrefix": "",
"SectionsToExcludeFromLists": [ "pages", "sidor" ],
"MainNavigationSections": [ "pages", "sidor" ],
"PaginationPageCount": 2,
"PaginationPageSize": 3
}
}
Build settings in Netlify
These are settings that work well with the sample site.
Setting | Value |
---|---|
Base directory | Leave empty |
Build command | dotnet test ./src/Krompaco.RecordCollector.Generator/Krompaco.RecordCollector.Generator.csproj --logger "console;verbosity=detailed" |
Publish directory | artifacts/static-site/ |
Builds | Activate builds |
You should also be able to push a Shell script and have more work done, for example building front-end stuff before generating the static site using npm run
or similar. The build-image has support for a wide variety of languages and runtimes.
This is such a great feature and really excited that it works this well with Record Collector! Thank you Netlify!

Johan Kronberg