My ready to go GitLab config to deploy an Eleventy website on a VPS using rsync and ssh

.gitlab-ci.yml

stages:
  - build
  - deploy

eleventy:
  stage: build
  image: node:lts-buster
  cache:
    key: "$CI_JOB_NAME"
    paths:
      - node_modules/
  script:
    - npm install
    - npm run build
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - dist/
  only:
    - master

rsync:
  stage: deploy
  image: instrumentisto/rsync-ssh
  script:
  - mkdir "${HOME}/.ssh"
  - echo "${SSH_HOST_KEY}" > "${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts"
  - echo "${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY}" > "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa"
  - chmod 700 "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa"
  - rsync -avH dist/* -e ssh ${SSH_USER}@${SSH_HOST}:${WEBROOT_PATH}
  only:
  - master

@zomars "HOME" is a system variable that points to the current user's home directory. The other variables can be defined in Gitlab CI/CD Settings, under the variables section. More info here: https://gitlab.com/help/ci/variables/README#variables

Thank you! 🙏

Even 4 years later this is helpful! :) Thanks!

Even 4 years later this is helpful! :) Thanks!

Thank you! Glad to know it 😃