1 - After get loggin in Netlify click on Deploys tab at navbar. The information about your project will be displayed, like url, settings and deploys history.
2 - Make sure that all necessary changes are commited on github repository.
3 - Click on Trigger Deploy button and select the option Deploy Site. The Deploy`s log will be shown.
4 - Click on Preview deploy to see the site on the web.
This explains a simple way to schedule a task which deploy your app using github actions.
Github Actions provides customs workflows that we can automate some recurrent jobs. We`ll use actions to create a job to call a netlify hook that is responsible for start the deploy process.
1 - To configure the action we need to create an yml file with the following lines:
name: Trigger Netlify Auto Build
on:
schedule:
- cron: '12 05 * * *' # every 05:12 AM
jobs:
build:
name: Request Netlify Webhook
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Curl request
run: curl -X POST -d '{}' https://api.netlify.com/build_hooks/<HOOK_ID>
CRON: It defines when to run the job.
HOOK_ID: It needs to be replaced by the hook id available on Netlify project. (Settings > Build & deploy > Continuous deployment > Build hooks).
2 - We need to create a folder inside the root directory in Github project .github/workflows/<my_action.yml>.
3 - Commit and Push and check the Netlify console received your changes.
For more details about Cron, yaml, Netlify Build Hooks and Github Actions check the docs bellow.