This repository powers oilstrokes.com, a minimalist Jekyll-based showcase of Roger Ehmpke’s traditional oil portrait work. The site emphasizes clean markup, strong accessibility practices, fast performance, and zero-framework dependency for maximal longevity.

Deployment is handled through an automated GitHub Actions → S3 → CloudFront pipeline, enabling fast and reliable pushes from the master branch with instant CDN cache invalidation.

Ruby Version: 3.3.4
(defined in .ruby-version)

Install dependencies:

gem install bundler
bundle install

This project uses classic Jekyll without additional build tooling:

bundle add jekyll

This site is intentionally simple and durable — no frameworks, no JavaScript bundlers, and no heavy build chains.

• Templating and layouts
• Page rendering
• Head metadata + SEO
• Final HTML output into _site/

• Ruby environment setup
• Running the Jekyll production build
• Syncing _site/ to the S3 bucket
• CloudFront cache invalidation (instant global updates)

• S3 — static hosting origin
• CloudFront — CDN + HTTPS + caching

This combination gives full control without the overhead of an all-in-one service like Amplify.
It also keeps AWS fundamentals sharp.

To serve the site locally with autoreload:

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

Jekyll will rebuild the site on every file change and serve from _site/.

Commits pushed to master automatically trigger the deployment workflow:

1. Install Ruby + Bundler
2. Run jekyll build
3. Sync the _site/ directory to S3
4. Invalidate CloudFront cache

No AWS keys appear in this repository — all credentials are injected securely via GitHub Secrets.

• Jekyll 4.x — static site generator
• Ruby 3.3.x — runtime
• AWS S3 — object storage + hosting
• AWS CloudFront — global CDN + cache
• GitHub Actions — automated CI/CD

No Node-based asset pipeline is used here, keeping the project fast, simple, and easy to maintain long-term.

oilstrokes/
├── _includes/          # Reusable components
├── _layouts/           # Jekyll page layouts
├── _site/              # Generated output (ignored)
├── assets/             # Static images, CSS
├── _config.yml         # Jekyll config
├── Gemfile             # Ruby dependencies
└── .github/workflows/  # CI/CD deployment pipeline

• Added GitHub Actions deploy pipeline
• Updated documentation and README
• Improved Jekyll config and AWS setup

• Initial launch of oilstrokes.com

© 2025 Roger Ehmpke. All rights reserved.

This repository is publicly visible for transparency but is not licensed for reuse.
See the LICENSE file for complete details.