Codebase Review & Cleanup Summary

✅ Cleanup Completed

Files Removed (GitHub-specific)

Workflows & Actions:

• ❌ .github/workflows/azure-static-web-apps.yml.disabled
• ❌ .github/workflows/n8n-create-post.yml.disabled
• ❌ .github/workflows/pages_deploy.yml.disabled
• ❌ .github/workflows/auto_post.yml.disabled
• ❌ .github/workflows/issue-to-post.yml
• ❌ .github/workflows/subscribe-intake.yml
• ❌ .github/workflows/README.md
• ❌ .github/workflows/AZURE-DEPLOYMENT-GUIDE.md

GitHub-specific Files:

• ❌ .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/new_post.yml
• ❌ .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/subscribe.yml
• ❌ .github/SECRET_VERIFICATION.md
• ❌ CNAME (GitHub Pages custom domain)
• ❌ _headers (Netlify/GitHub Pages headers)
• ❌ AUTOMATION-GEMINI.md (old automation doc)

Empty Directories:

• ❌ .github/workflows/
• ❌ .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/

Files Kept (Essential)

N8N Workflow:

• ✅ .github/n8n-workflow-direct-azure.json - Importable N8N workflow (updated, no Git operations)
• ✅ .github/N8N-INTEGRATION.md - Complete integration guide (updated, no GitHub refs)

Documentation:

• ✅ README.md - Main project README
• ✅ README-AUTONOMOUS-SETUP.md - Autonomous setup guide (updated)
• ✅ SETUP-GUIDE.md - NEW Quick setup guide
• ✅ QUICK-REFERENCE.md - One-page cheat sheet (updated)

Jekyll Site:

• ✅ _config.yml - Jekyll configuration
• ✅ _posts/ - Blog posts
• ✅ _authors/ - Author profiles
• ✅ _layouts/ - Page templates
• ✅ _includes/ - Reusable components
• ✅ _data/ - Data files
• ✅ assets/ - CSS, images
• ✅ pages/ - Static pages
• ✅ Gemfile - Ruby dependencies
• ✅ index.html - Homepage
• ✅ robots.txt - SEO
• ✅ news-sitemap.xml - Google News sitemap
• ✅ staticwebapp.config.json - Azure configuration

🏗️ Updated Architecture

Old (with GitHub):

N8N → GitHub API → GitHub Actions → Jekyll Build → Azure Deploy

New (Direct):

N8N → Local File Creation → Jekyll Build → Azure Deploy

Benefits:

• ⚡ Faster (no GitHub API calls)
• 💰 Cheaper (no GitHub Actions minutes)
• 🎯 Simpler (fewer moving parts)
• 🔒 More control (everything in N8N)

📝 N8N Workflow Changes

Nodes (Before):

1. Schedule Trigger
2. AI Content Generation
3. Build Post File
4. Git Operations ← REMOVED
5. Jekyll Build
6. Azure Deploy

Nodes (After):

1. Schedule Trigger
2. AI Content Generation
3. Build Post File
4. Save File Locally ← NEW
5. Jekyll Build
6. Azure Deploy

Key Changes:

• ❌ Removed Git clone/commit/push operations
• ❌ Removed GITHUB_TOKEN requirement
• ✅ Files saved directly to /tmp/blog-site/_posts/
• ✅ Jekyll site must be mounted/copied to /tmp/blog-site

🔧 Setup Requirements

Before (with GitHub):

• GitHub Personal Access Token
• GitHub repository
• Azure deployment token
• AI API key
• N8N
• Ruby/Jekyll
• Git
• Azure CLI

After (no GitHub):

• GitHub Personal Access Token
• GitHub repository
• Git
• ✅ Azure deployment token
• ✅ AI API key
• ✅ N8N
• ✅ Ruby/Jekyll
• ✅ Azure CLI
• ✅ Jekyll site mounted at /tmp/blog-site

📦 Deployment Setup

N8N Docker Setup

docker run -d \
  --name n8n \
  -p 5678:5678 \
  -v ~/.n8n:/home/node/.n8n \
  -v /path/to/jekyll/site:/tmp/blog-site \
  -e TZ=Asia/Kolkata \
  docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n

Critical: Mount your Jekyll site to /tmp/blog-site

Environment Variables

Before:

GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...
AZURE_DEPLOYMENT_TOKEN=...
AZURE_APP_NAME=...
OPENAI_API_KEY=...

After:

AZURE_DEPLOYMENT_TOKEN=...
AZURE_APP_NAME=...
OPENAI_API_KEY=...

💡 File Management

Backup Strategy

Since files are no longer in GitHub, implement backups:

Option 1: Automated Backup (Cron)

# Add to crontab
0 2 * * * tar -czf /backups/blog-$(date +\%Y\%m\%d).tar.gz /tmp/blog-site

Option 2: N8N Backup Workflow Create separate N8N workflow:

• Schedule: Daily at 2 AM
• Action: Zip /tmp/blog-site
• Upload: To cloud storage (S3, Dropbox, etc.)

Option 3: Volume Backup If using Docker volumes, backup the volume:

docker run --rm \
  -v blog-site:/source \
  -v /backups:/backup \
  alpine tar -czf /backup/blog-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz -C /source .

📊 Cost Comparison

Speed Improvement:

• Before: 2-3 minutes (includes Git operations)
• After: 1.5-2 minutes (direct file save)

✅ Testing Checklist

• N8N container running with mounted volume
• Jekyll site accessible at /tmp/blog-site
• bundle install successful
• Azure deployment token configured
• AI API key configured
• N8N workflow imported
• Manual workflow execution successful
• Post file created in _posts/
• Jekyll build completes
• Azure deployment successful
• Site accessible at https://kbhaskar.tech
• News sitemap updates
• Automated schedule activated

📚 Documentation

Primary Guides:

1. SETUP-GUIDE.md - Quick start guide
2. QUICK-REFERENCE.md - One-page cheat sheet
3. .github/N8N-INTEGRATION.md - Detailed N8N guide
4. README-AUTONOMOUS-SETUP.md - Complete setup overview

Workflow File:

• .github/n8n-workflow-direct-azure.json - Import this into N8N

🚀 Quick Start

# 1. Copy Jekyll site
cp -r bhaskar-daily-ai-news /tmp/blog-site

# 2. Start N8N with mount
docker run -d --name n8n \
  -p 5678:5678 \
  -v ~/.n8n:/home/node/.n8n \
  -v /tmp/blog-site:/tmp/blog-site \
  docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n

# 3. Install deps in N8N
docker exec -it n8n sh -c \
  "apk add ruby ruby-dev build-base && \
   gem install jekyll bundler && \
   npm install -g @azure/static-web-apps-cli"

# 4. Import workflow in N8N UI
# 5. Configure env vars
# 6. Activate workflow
# 7. Done! 🎉

🎯 Summary

Removed: All GitHub dependencies Added: Direct file management in N8N Result: Simpler, faster, more autonomous system

The site is now fully self-contained in N8N with direct Azure deployment. No external version control needed.