Has anyone tried (with any success) to serve the DBT Documentation from SharePoint?
Our deployment is in Google GCP, with DBT running as a service in Kubernetes. While I could put up a Nginx container and serve from there, we have a requirement to secure the documentation. And wile GCP has plenty of options to secure a site, it seems a bit overkill for our needs. Also given that our infrastructure is cloud based, I am reluctant to standup a webserver internally. Netlify is probably a non-starter too as getting management approval would be arduous. And we do have SharePoint.
The obvious approach of creating a document library and copying in the target directory did not work. When I attempt to open the index.html file the page paints, but in the content window all I see is a loading message, which never clears.
Since I am a database guy and not a portal person, any advice would be welcome, even if it is to not try since it won’t work. That way I can look to other solutions.
I ended up deploying it to an Azure Static webapp instead. In the DBT repository I created a file called staticwebapp.config.json and specified access rules in it etc.
In the Gitlab pipe I build the DBT Docs with “dbt docs generate” and then I deployed it in another job using an image called “image: Microsoft Artifact Registry” and executing the script “/bin/staticsites/StaticSitesClient upload --verbose true --apiToken $API_TOKEN --app $APP_PATH”.
API_TOKEN comes from Azure (only token is needed for the script to know where to put the files) and the APP_PATH is the directory contains the generated files from the build job ( index.html catalog.json manifest.json) and also staticwebapp.config.json.
