Not much to tell you here except that the blog was moved from a GitHub workflow and repository, to Azure DevOps, then back to GitHub, so any/all mentions of https://github.com/SummittDweller/eleventy-blog in past posts are ~now equivalent to https://summittdweller@dev.azure.com/summittdweller/My-Eleventy-Blog/_git/My-Eleventy-Blog~ still valid.

Azure Pipelines

Azure DevOps replaces GitHub Actions in Azure with "Azure Pipelines". I'm not a fan. Microsoft had such a good thing going in GitHub Actions that I just assumed Pipelines would leverage that. Nope, and that's largely why I moved back to GitHub with this.

Pipeline Errors

So, in the Azure Pipelines there's an option to select an "Existing Azure Pipelines YAML file" and I choose that, incorrectly. When I applied my old .github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps-white-cliff-08b1f8010.yml as a pipeline it didn't work, naturally. Fortunately, I soon found How to Publish Azure Static Web Apps with Azure DevOps and am working through that "proper" procedure now.

Removing the Errant Pipeline

I have yet to find any guidance telling me how to remove that errant .github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps-white-cliff-08b1f8010.yml pipeline, so I'm just going to remove that file (moving it to an .out-of-the-way directory) and see what happens.

Ok, I managed to get a "correct" Pipeline into place after removing the errant one. Unfortunateluy, that's when I discovered that to run a Pipeline in the free tier of Azure DevOps you have to be "granted permission" and that's a two to three-day process with no guarantee of success. :frowning: You can, of course, pay for the right to run a Pipeline, but I'm not inclined to do that either when GitHub Actions are free AND very capable.

Moving Back to GitHub

So, this experimental blog has officially moved back to GitHub, specifically to https://github.com/SummittDweller/my-eleventy-blog with CI/CD deployment via GitHub Actions to My Eleventy Blog.

A New/Old Path Forward

My goal now with this blog is to introduce NetlifyCMS into a site that's NOT hosted in Netlify.com. I'd also like to see if I can make StatiCrypt work for selected pages. My target for all of the above is my Azure Services portal leveraging GitHub Actions for CI/CD deployment and all of the associated heavy-lifting.

The NetlifyCMS Piece

I found what looks like a wonderful guide at jahlen/hugo-azure-static-webapp.

The StatiCrypt Piece

In addtion to the implementation shown above, I'd like to also engage StatiCrypt, as previously mentioned, and I found a "guide" without much guidance or documentation :frowning: Fortunately, this "guide" at Jack-alope/staticrypt-github-actions does include a key example encrypt.yml file.

An Eleventy Spin

I'm also interested in doing all of the above with Eleventy, so I found Setup Netlify CMS with Eleventy for guidance.

Coordination

All of the pertinent aforementioned resources should be available in a single OneTab that I've saved as a webpage at: https://www.one-tab.com/page/1cYmhYFrSZ2OMY9A0hBMYg.

Let's take these three bits of wisdom for a spin, eh?