Guide to Build and Deploy Applications in AWS EBS using Github Actions

1. Create a EC2 Instance from here

   • To Connect EC2 instance :

           1. Click on Connect button near launch instance
           2. Use any of the 3 options to connect your instance (browser-based ssh connection is pretty much easier than others)
     

2. Navigate to your working repository and Create a self hosted runner from Settings -> Actions -> Runners

   • Select the environment where the runner is going to be install (select similar to EC2 instance Environment)
   • Select the architecture
   • Run all the commands shown in your EC2 instance created from #1

3. Create a S3 bucket from here and enable public access for the bucket

4. Create a ElasticBeanStalk Application from here

5. Create a IAM user for programmatic access from here and make sure whether it has all the below access:

   • AWSS3FullAccess
   • AWSEC2FullAccess
   • AWSCloudfromationFullAccess
   • AdministratorAccess-AWSElasticBeanstalk
     These are predefined policies provided by AWS . We can also create our own policies based on the requirement
     

6. Once you done with creating IAM user you will get a ACCESS_KEY_ID and ACCESS_KEY (please store the access_key somewhere. you can't see the same access_key value again). Add those keys secrets Settings - > Secrets -> Actions

   • In my case I have named AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID for access_key_id and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for access_key

7. Create a directory named workflows inside .github directory in root folder.
   Looks Like

       ├── .github 
       │   ├── workflows 
       │   │   ├── *.yaml // here goes all the github-action files 
       ├── build 
       ├── src 
   

   To know more about github actions Click Here

8. Copy the github-actions.yaml file from here to your workflows directory.

9. Config all the env values :

         EB_APPLICATION_NAME: "YOUR_EBS_APPLICATION_NAME" created in #3
         EB_APP_ENV_NAME: "YOUR_EBS_APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT NAME" created in #3
         DEPLOY_PACKAGE_NAME: "YOUR_APPLICATIO_NAME-${{ github.sha }}.zip" // make sure you have different package name for each deployment to keep track on your application version
         AWS_REGION_NAME: "YOUR_REGION" where all aws components are created 
         AWS_BUCKET_NAME: "YOUR_BUCKET_NAME" created in #4
   

• Note: make sure all the above AWS components are created in same region