Example GitHub Actions workflow to deploy to Amazon EKS

An example workflow that uses GitHub Actions to build a static website into a container image tagged with the git sha, push that image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry, and deploy to Amazon EKS using a simple Kubernetes Deployment and Service yaml with the image tag injected by Kustomize.

Prerequisites

1. Create an EKS cluster, e.g. using eksctl create cluster
2. Create an ECR repo called example-eks

Secrets

The following secrets are required to be set on the repository:

1. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: An AWS access key ID for an account having the EKS IAM role
2. AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: An AWS secret sccess key for an account having the EKS IAM role

Env vars

The following environment variables need to be set in the workflow:

1. AWS_REGION: (e.g. eu-west-1)
2. EKS_CLUSTER_NAME: (e.g. exciting-party-1574475054)

You can optionally change the name of the ECR repo mentioned above in prereqs.

   - name: Build, tag, and push image to Amazon ECR
      id: build-image
      env:
        ECR_REGISTRY: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}
        ECR_REPOSITORY: example-eks
        IMAGE_TAG: ${{ github.sha }}

Contributions

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License

MIT