Troubleshooting SEO Metadata Generation in CI/CD Pipeline on Ubuntu 20.04
I'm integrating two systems and While implementing a CI/CD pipeline for our web application hosted on Ubuntu 20.04, I've hit a snag with automatically generating SEO metadata for deployment... My goal is to ensure that each build produces up-to-date metadata based on the latest content changes, but I can't seem to get the generation process to run smoothly within the pipeline. I've set up a Node.js script to create the metadata, which works perfectly on my local machine. The script utilizes the `fs` module to read content from specific markdown files, then generates a JSON object for SEO: ```javascript const fs = require('fs'); const path = require('path'); const generateMetadata = () => { const contentDir = './content/'; const files = fs.readdirSync(contentDir); const metadata = files.map(file => { const content = fs.readFileSync(path.join(contentDir, file), 'utf8'); return { title: content.match(/title: (.*)/)[1], description: content.match(/description: (.*)/)[1] }; }); fs.writeFileSync('./metadata.json', JSON.stringify(metadata, null, 2)); }; generateMetadata(); ``` After integrating this script into our CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, the build fails during the metadata generation step. The error message indicates permission issues when trying to access the content directory on the CI server: ``` Error: EACCES: permission denied, open './content/some-file.md' ``` To resolve this, I've tried modifying the directory permissions using `chmod`, but it hasn't made a difference. Additionally, I experimented with running the pipeline as a different user with the `sudo` command, but that only led to further complications with the Node.js environment. As a potential workaround, I considered using a Docker container for the CI process, which would allow me to predefine the permissions fully. However, I'm not entirely sure how to set this up effectively. Should I create a Dockerfile specifically for this CI job, or can I modify the existing one? Would appreciate any insights on how to resolve this permission issue or suggestions for alternative approaches to automate the SEO metadata generation in our CI/CD pipeline. Any guidance on best practices for handling file permissions in this context would be extremely helpful. Any ideas what could be causing this?