Deploy Code to EC2 using Code Deploy and GitHub Actions

In this post we’ll see how we can use Code Deploy And GitHub Actions to deploy our code to EC2 instances.

Reference: We’ll refer to following article and use Terraform to build the infra. So I won’t do much explaining about what we are going to do. You can go through the article once to understand the workflow.

Amazon EC2 Deployment: Complete CI/CD Pipeline using GitHub Actions and AWS CodeDeploy

Step 1: Fork

Fork the following: https://github.com/vinycoolguy2015/FlaskAppCodeDeploy.git (which I forked from https://github.com/azzan-amin-97/FlaskAppCodeDeploy.git and made some changes in appspec file).

Step 2: Get Terraform code

Get Terraform code from https://github.com/vinycoolguy2015/awslambda/tree/master/github_actions_ec2 and change git repo url in script.tpl file(line 14). Also create an SSH key using ssh-keygen command.

Now apply the code.

This will create our code deploy job along with an auto-scaling group with 2 EC2 instances, running behind an ALB. Once setup is created, try accessing ALB…