Page deployment fails after successful build

The pages job succeeds, but the pipeline fails on the master branch. The page is not deployed.

The error message shown is: pages:deploy - No entries extracted

• MkDocs version: 1.1.2
• Commit: 50535eb9 (master branch)

Analysis

The Gitlab pages requirements specify that the content to be published should be in a directory called public. But the default build directory is site, at least as of mkdocs v1.1.2.

The solution would be to force mkdocs to build into public directory.