i am new github actions workflow and was wondering that is it possible that i set my ec2 machine directly for CI and CD after every push.
I have seen that it is possible with ECS , but i wanted a straight forward solution as we are trying this out on our Dev environment we don't want over shoot our budget.
is it possible , if yes how can i achieve it ?
If you build your code in GitHub Actions, and just want to copy the package over existing EC2, you can use SCP files action plugin
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/scp-files
- name: copy file via ssh key
uses: appleboy/scp-action@master
with:
host: ${{ secrets.HOST }}
username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
port: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
key: ${{ secrets.KEY }}
source: "tests/a.txt,tests/b.txt"
target: "test"
If you have any other AWS resource which interacts with EC2 (or any other AWS service) and you want to use AWS CLI, you can use AWS Credentials Action
https://github.com/aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials
- name: Configure AWS credentials from Test account
uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
with:
aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.TEST_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.TEST_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
aws-region: us-east-1
- name: Copy files to the test website with the AWS CLI
run: |
aws s3 sync . s3://my-s3-test-website-bucket