Managing Spaces with CircleCI Workflows

You can keep your app in sync with your GitHub repository with a CircleCI workflow.

CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that helps automate the software development process. A CircleCI workflow is a set of automated tasks defined in a configuration file, orchestrated by CircleCI, to streamline the process of building, testing, and deploying software applications.

Note: For files larger than 10MB, Spaces requires Git-LFS. If you don’t want to use Git-LFS, you may need to review your files and check your history. Use a tool like BFG Repo-Cleaner to remove any large files from your history. BFG Repo-Cleaner will keep a local copy of your repository as a backup.

First, set up your GitHub repository and Spaces app together. Add your Spaces app as an additional remote to your existing Git repository.

git remote add space https://huggingface.co/spaces/HF_USERNAME/SPACE_NAME

Then force push to sync everything for the first time:

git push --force space main

Next, set up a CircleCI workflow to push your main git branch to Spaces.

In the example below:

• Replace HF_USERNAME with your username and SPACE_NAME with your Space name.
• Create a context in CircleCI and add an env variable into it called HF_PERSONAL_TOKEN (you can give it any name, use the key you create in place of HF_PERSONAL_TOKEN) and the value as your Hugging Face API token. You can find your Hugging Face API token under API Tokens on your Hugging Face profile.

version: 2.1

workflows:
  main:
    jobs:
      - sync-to-huggingface:
          context:
            - HuggingFace
          filters:
            branches:
              only:
                - main

jobs:
  sync-to-huggingface:
    docker:
      - image: alpine
    resource_class: small
    steps:
      - run: 
          name: install git
          command: apk update && apk add openssh-client git
      - checkout
      - run:
          name: push to Huggingface hub
          command: |
                  git config user.email "<your-email@here>" 
                  git config user.name "<your-identifier>" 
                  git push -f https://HF_USERNAME:${HF_PERSONAL_TOKEN}@huggingface.co/spaces/HF_USERNAME/SPACE_NAME main