Using GitHub Actions To Deploy To AWS Beanstalk & S3

GitHub Actions are a powerful way to automate workflows helping you build, test and deploy your code. The marketplace is rapidly growing with new actions being added every day, doing everything from posting to Slack to deploying to AWS.

The following are some actions to help you deploy your code to Amazon AWS, enjoy!

To be able to deploy your code to AWS, you’ll first need to specify your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY keys under your Settings > Secrets in your repo.

After adding the AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY secrets, it should look like this.

And now your can access those AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY values in your action, sweet!

${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

Deploy Node.js To AWS Beanstalk

This action will deploy Node.js app to AWS Beanstalk, just edit the variables:

• MY_BEANSTALK_APPLICATION your Beanstalk app name
• MY_BEANSTALK_ENVIRONMENT your Beanstalk environment
• MY_AWS_REGION your AWS region

name: Deploy To Beanstalk
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [10.x]
steps:
    
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - name: Use node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
    
    - name: Run npm install, lint
      run: |
        npm ci
        npm install
        npm run lint
    
    - name: Generate deployment package
      run: zip -r package.zip . -x ".git/*" -x ".github/*" -x ".vscode/*"
      
    - name: Get timestamp
      id: timestamp
      run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S-%3NZ')"  
            
    - name: Run beanstalk deploy
      uses: einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy@v2
      with:
        aws_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        aws_secret_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        application_name: MY_BEANSTALK_APPLICATION
        environment_name: MY_BEANSTALK_ENVIRONMENT
        region: MY_AWS_REGION
        version_label: "${{ steps.timestamp.outputs.date }}"
        deployment_package: package.zip

Deploy Vue.js To AWS S3 & Cloudfront

This action will deploy a Vue.js app to AWS S3 and invalidate the AWS Cloudfront distribution.

• MY_S3_BUCKET your S3 bucket name
• MY_CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION your Cloudfront distribution id
• MY_AWS_REGION your AWS region

name: Deploy To S3 & Cloudfront
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
strategy:
      matrix:
        node-version: [10.x]
steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      
    - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}
      uses: actions/setup-node@v1
      with:
        node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
    
    - name: Run npm install, lint, build
      run: |
        npm ci
        npm install
        npm run lint
        npm run prod:test
- name: Run s3-sync-action
      uses: jakejarvis/s3-sync-action@master
      with:
        args: --acl public-read --follow-symlinks --delete
      env:
        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        AWS_S3_BUCKET: MY_S3_BUCKET
        AWS_REGION: 'MY_AWS_REGION'   
        SOURCE_DIR: './dist' 
    
    - name: Run invalidate-cloudfront-action
      uses: chetan/invalidate-cloudfront-action@master
      env:
        PATHS: '/*'
        AWS_REGION: 'MY_AWS_REGION'
        DISTRIBUTION: 'MY_CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION'
        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

Deploy Ruby On Rails To AWS Beanstalk

This action can deploy Ruby On Rails app to AWS Beanstalk.

• MY_BEANSTALK_APPLICATION your Beanstalk app name
• MY_BEANSTALK_ENVIRONMENT your Beanstalk environment
• MY_AWS_REGION the AWS region being deployed to

For instructions on how to deploy Rails 6 to AWS Beanstalk, read my previous post Deploying Rails 6 To AWS Beanstalk.

name: Deploy To Beanstalk
on: 
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2   
          
    - name: Generate package
      uses: thedoctor0/zip-release@master
      with:
        filename: 'package.zip'
        exclusions: '*.git* /*node_modules/* /*test/* *.md'
- name: Current timestamp
      id: timestamp
      run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M-%S-%3NZ')"  
            
    - name: Beanstalk deploy
      uses: einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy@v2
      with:
        aws_access_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
        aws_secret_key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
        application_name: MY_BEANSTALK_APPLICATION
        environment_name: MY_BEANSTALK_ENVIRONMENT
        region: MY_AWS_REGION
        version_label: "${{ steps.timestamp.outputs.date }}"
        deployment_package: package.zip

Note, these actions are triggered whenever you push to the master branch. For Production builds, you’ll probably only want to deploy when a specific release tag is created.

on: 
  push:
    tags:
      - release-*

What actions have you created? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!

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