Publish new blog posts from anywhere!

1. Deploy this to an AWS Lambda
2. Send requests to this AWS Lambda
   • (Even from your mobile device!)
3. Blog posts are published!

• Install and configure scar, to use containers inside AWS Lambda
• Customize the environment variables in blog-lambda.yaml and run scar init -f blog-lambda.yaml to create your Lambda
• If you don't have an SSH key pair you'd like to use:
  • Create a new SSH key pair (e.g. ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "lambda-ssh")
  • Add the public SSH key to your account on Github
• Send a request to the AWS Lambda
  • In curl, this might look like curl https://YOUR_LAMBDA_ID.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/scar/launch -d "$(node generator.js | base64)" | base64 --decode
  • Request body format shown in generator.js
• Your blog repo is downloaded, your post is added, compiled with hugo, committed, and pushed back to master!

Because I can't use static site generators like Hugo from mobile, and because I don't think it's worth running a dedicated server instance with my current post frequency.

Presumably you're hosting this on your own Lambda and sending data over HTTPS, but even so, you don't need to use an SSH key with pull/push access to all of your repos.

I'd recommend making a separate user or service account which is only given access to the git repo which it needs to push to, and creating an SSH key authenticated to use that account.