Week 6 - Day 5: Deploy to AWS | DevOps Curriculum

📚 Learning Objectives

Set up AWS credentials in GitHub
Deploy Docker app to EC2
Implement automated deployment workflow
Handle rollbacks and monitoring

📖 AWS Deployment Workflow

name: Deploy to AWS EC2

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      
      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v4
        with:
          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          aws-region: us-east-1
      
      - name: Login to ECR
        run: |
          aws ecr get-login-password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $ECR_REGISTRY
      
      - name: Build and push
        run: |
          docker build -t myapp .
          docker tag myapp:latest $ECR_REGISTRY/myapp:latest
          docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/myapp:latest
      
      - name: Deploy to EC2
        run: |
          aws ssm send-command \
            --instance-ids ${{ secrets.EC2_INSTANCE_ID }} \
            --document-name "AWS-RunShellScript" \
            --parameters 'commands=["docker pull $ECR_REGISTRY/myapp:latest","docker stop myapp || true","docker run -d --name myapp -p 80:80 $ECR_REGISTRY/myapp:latest"]'

🎉 Week 6 Complete!

What you learned:

DevOps culture and lifecycle
CI/CD concepts and pipelines
GitHub Actions workflows
Automated AWS deployment