GA_Resume_on_EC2

Host Your Resume on AWS EC2 with a CI/CD Setup Using GitHub Actions

This article helps you understand how you can automatically deploy your code to AWS EC2 from GitHub. Deployed Resume can be viewed here - http://ec2-13-60-15-196.eu-north-1.compute.amazonaws.com/

Step 1: Create an EC2 Instance and Download the Key Pair.

Step 2: Create Secrets in GitHub for the Repository

Step 3: Creating your first workflow

Creating your first workflow

1. Create a .github/workflows directory in your repository on GitHub if this directory does not already exist.

2. In the .github/workflows directory, create a file named github-actions-ec2.yml.

3. Start your file by defining jobs:

   jobs:
     deploy:
       name: Deploy to EC2
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest

4. Checkout the files:

     steps:
       - name: Checkout the files
         uses: actions/checkout@v2

5. Deploy the code to the server:

       - name: Deploy to Server 1
         uses: easingthemes/ssh-deploy@main
         env:
           SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.EC2_SSH_KEY }}
           REMOTE_HOST: ${{ secrets.HOST_DNS }}
           REMOTE_USER: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
           TARGET: ${{ secrets.TARGET_DIR }}

   • You need to fill in the secrets using GitHub Secrets that you can add in your repo, read GitHub Secrets

     • EC2_SSH_KEY: This will be your .pem file which you will use to login to the instance

     • HOST_DNS: Public DNS record of the instance, it will look something like this ec2-xx-xxx-xxx-xxx.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

     • USERNAME: Will be the username of the EC2 instance, usually ubuntu

     • TARGET_DIR: Is where you want to deploy your code.

6. Once you add all these information your repo will look like thisGitHub Secrets

   

7. Trigger deployment only on push to master branch:

   on:
     push:
       branches:
         - main

8. The final .github/workflows/github-actions-ec2.yml should look like the following:

   name: Push-to-EC2
   
   # Trigger deployment only on push to main branch
   on:
     push:
       branches:
         - main
   
   jobs:
     deploy:
       name: Deploy to EC2 on master branch push
       runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   
       steps:
         - name: Checkout the files
           uses: actions/checkout@v2
   
         - name: Deploy to Server 1
           uses: easingthemes/ssh-deploy@main
           env:
             SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.EC2_SSH_KEY }}
             REMOTE_HOST: ${{ secrets.HOST_DNS }}
             REMOTE_USER: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
             TARGET: ${{ secrets.TARGET_DIR }}
   
         - name: Executing remote ssh commands using ssh key
           uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
           with:
             host: ${{ secrets.HOST_DNS }}
             username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
             key: ${{ secrets.EC2_SSH_KEY }}
             script: |
               sudo apt-get -y update
               sudo apt-get install -y apache2
               sudo systemctl start apache2
               sudo systemctl enable apache2
               cd home
               sudo mv * /var/www/html