github-action-ecs-workflow

github-action-ecs-workflow

name: Deploy to Amazon ECS

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
      - develop
      - releases

  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main
      - develop
      - releases

jobs:

...[I removed some jobs from here for a better understanding. But I was using some jobs for build javascript dependencies and also building a docker image]...

  deploy-ecs-dev:
    name: ECS Task Register
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: docker_build
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/releases' && github.event_name == 'push'
    
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
  
      - uses: nelonoel/[email protected]
  
      - uses: nick-invision/persist-action-data@v1
        with:
          data: ${{ steps.build-image.outputs.image }} <----- I removed the step that I built the docker image and 
          retrieve_variables: IMAGE_TAG

      - name: Configure AWS credentials
        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
        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: Generate task definition file
        uses: ./.github/actions/generate-task-definition-json
        with:
          environment: "dev"
          ecr_name: ${{ secrets.AWS_ECR_ADDRESS }}
          ecr_repository_name: "your-ecr-repository-name"
          image_tag: $IMAGE_TAG
          container_name: "your-container-name"
          container_port: 8080
          container_cpu: 256
          container_memory: 512
          host_port: 8080
          execution_role_arn: ${{ secrets.DEV_ECS_EXECUTION_ROLE_ARN }}
          app_datasource_password: ${{ secrets.DEV_APP_DATASOURCE_PASSWD }}
          app_datasource_url: ${{ secrets.DEV_APP_DATASOURCE_URL }}
          app_datasource_username: ${{ secrets.DEV_APP_DATASOURCE_USERNAME }}
  
      - run: cat task-definition.json <---- just an step for showing the content of the json file created by my own action

      - name: Deploy Amazon ECS task definition 0 DEV
        uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-deploy-task-definition@v1
        with:
          cluster: my-ecs-cluster-name
          task-definition: task-definition.json <----- that one that my custom action created
          service: my-ecs-service-name
          wait-for-service-stability: true