Hosting Resume on AWS EC2 Instance with CI/CD Setup using GitHub Actions

Step #1: Go to EC2 from AWS Console

Log in to your AWS Management Console and navigate to the EC2 dashboard.

Step #2: Create a New Security Group

• Go to Security Groups in EC2 Dashboard
• Click Create Security Group (e.g., name it Linux-SG)

Inbound Rules (Add Rule):

• Type: SSH, Port Range: 22, Source: Anywhere-IPv4 (0.0.0.0/0)
• Type: HTTP, Port Range: 80, Source: Anywhere-IPv4 (0.0.0.0/0)
• Type: HTTPS, Port Range: 443, Source: Anywhere-IPv4 (0.0.0.0/0)

• Click Create Security Group

Step #3: Create EC2 Instance

• Click Launch Instance
• Choose an Instance Name (e.g., My First Web Server)
• Select OS as Ubuntu from the Amazon Machine Image
• Select Instance type as t2.micro (available under Free Tier)
• Create a New Keypair (e.g., My-kp1, Type: RSA). Download it and store it securely.
• Select the security group created earlier and configure the rest of the instance settings.
• Click Launch Instance

Step #4: GitHub Repository

Create a new GitHub repository and upload the files for your resume (e.g., index.html, style.css, etc.).

Step #5: Secrets and Variables for CI/CD

• Go to Settings in your repository
• Under Secrets and Variables, add the following secrets:
• EC2_SSH_KEY: Copy your private key from the downloaded keypair
• HOST_DNS: AWS provided Public IPv4 DNS for your instance (e.g., ec2-xx-xxx-xxx.compute-x.amazonaws.com)
• TARGET_DIR: `home` (or the directory where your resume files are located)
• USERNAME: `Ubuntu` (default username for Ubuntu EC2 instances)

Step #6: GitHub Actions

• Create a directory .github/workflows in your repository
• Create a file named github-actions-ec2.yml in the workflows folder
• Copy and paste the following content into the file:

name: Push-to-EC2

# Trigger deployment only on push to main branch
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  deploy:
    name: Deploy to EC2 on master branch push
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout the files
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Deploy to Server 1
        uses: easingthemes/ssh-deploy@main
        env:
          SSH_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.EC2_SSH_KEY }}
          REMOTE_HOST: ${{ secrets.HOST_DNS }}
          REMOTE_USER: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          TARGET: ${{ secrets.TARGET_DIR }}

      - name: Executing remote ssh commands using ssh key
        uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
        with:
          host: ${{ secrets.HOST_DNS }}
          username: ${{ secrets.USERNAME }}
          key: ${{ secrets.EC2_SSH_KEY }}
          script: |
            sudo apt-get -y update
            sudo apt-get install -y apache2
            sudo systemctl start apache2
            sudo systemctl enable apache2
            cd home
            sudo mv * /var/www/html
            

Click Commit Changes

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

After setting up the above steps, any change committed to the Code will automatically reflect on the instance.