ECS Deploymnet GitHub Action template

build-deploy.yml

# Replace <items-in-angle-brackets> to cofigure
name: Build <stage|production> container and deploy
on:
  push:
    branches: [ <stage|production> ]

env:
  ECR_REPOSITORY: <repo-name>
  AWS_REGION: us-east-1
  ECS_CLUSTER: <custer-name>
  ECS_SERVICE: <service-name>
  ECS_TASK: <task-name>
  CONTAINER_NAME: <container-name>
  BUILD_TAG: <stage|prod>

jobs: 
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: 'Checkout repository with submodules'
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        submodules: recursive

    - 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: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}
    
    - name: Login to Amazon ECR
      id: login-ecr
      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1

    - name: Build, tag, and push image to Amazon ECR
      id: build-image
      env: 
        ECR_REGISTRY: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}
        IMAGE_TAG: ${{ github.sha }}
      run: |
        docker build --pull --no-cache -t ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest .
        docker tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:latest
        docker tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ env.BUILD_TAG }}
        docker tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ env.BUILD_TAG }}-${{ github.sha }}
        docker tag ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}:latest ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ github.sha }}
        docker push ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:latest
        docker push ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ env.BUILD_TAG }}
        docker push ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ env.BUILD_TAG }}-${{ github.sha }}
        docker push ${{ env.ECR_REGISTRY }}/${{ env.ECR_REPOSITORY }}:${{ github.sha }}
        echo "::set-output name=image::$ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG"

    - name: Download task definition
      run: |
         aws ecs describe-task-definition --task-definition ${{ env.ECS_TASK }} --query taskDefinition > task-definition.json

    - name: Fill in the new image ID in the Amazon ECS task definition
      id: task-def
      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-render-task-definition@v1
      with:
        task-definition: task-definition.json
        container-name: ${{ env.CONTAINER_NAME }}
        image: ${{ steps.build-image.outputs.image }}
         
    - name: Deploy Amazon ECS task definition
      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-deploy-task-definition@v1
      with:
        task-definition: ${{ steps.task-def.outputs.task-definition }}
        service: ${{ env.ECS_SERVICE }}
        cluster: ${{ env.ECS_CLUSTER }}
        force-new-deployment: true
        wait-for-service-stability: true