What if I tell you can run Postman collection inside Github Actions and so easily automate all the things as long as they provide APIs? Sounds interes

Automate all the things (like Cloudflare cache purge) with Github actions, Postman and APIs

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2021-07-02 15:30:18

What if I tell you can run Postman collection inside Github Actions and so easily automate all the things as long as they provide APIs? Sounds interesting right? So let me show you how I migrated my Jekyll blog publication workflow to Github Actions and how I used Postman collection to clear my Cloudflare cache. Bonus: You may also learn a few things about DX and API design.

Since 2016, the API Handyman blog is powered by Jekyll, built by travis-ci.org, hosted on Github Pages and cached with Cloudflare CDN. On May 31, 2021, travis-ci.org has been shot down. This has been announced for quite a long time… but I managed to totally forgot to do something about it; I actually realized it simply because my 1st of June’s post has not been published. I was going to migrate to travis-ci.com but because (or thanks) to an obscure bug I wasn’t able to do it … and as I wanted to test Github Actions, I took the few necessary minutes to switch my build on it, and that was a blast. Ready to use actions that you can build upon, clear and simple format, good documentation, I was totally delighted.

As changing the build system was faster than expected, I decided to tinker a bit more and solve a problem I had with my system: to ensure publication, I had to go to Cloudflare dashboard and manually clear the cache. If by chance Cloudflare propose an API, I thought I could include clearing cache after the build with a curl command, but as always I did a little bit more than that.