Project 7: CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions | Deploy to AWS ECS with Terraform Module

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🗓️ Date: Saturday, [Date], 2025 ⏰ Time: 11:00 AM EST (U.S. – New York Time) 📍 Location: [YouTube Live Link] 🎙️ Instructor: Azeez Salu 💻 Level: Intermediate → Advanced ⏱️ Duration: ~4-5 hours (with live Q&A) Project 7 information and assets: [Google Doc Link] Attendance list: [Google Doc Link] 🟢 Goal Learn how to implement a complete CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions to automate the deployment of a containerized web application on AWS ECS, including infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, Docker image building, vulnerability scanning, automated deployments, health checks, rollback capabilities, and Slack notifications. 🧱 Session Outline 1️⃣ Introduction & CI/CD Overview Review previous project architecture and introduce CI/CD concepts with GitHub Actions 2️⃣ Update Terraform Configuration 🔹 Remove profile from backend and provider 🔹 Configure authentication via environment variables 3️⃣ Update Terraform Outputs 🔹 Add ECS module outputs (cluster name, task definition, service name) 🔹 Add main.tf outputs (domain, RDS endpoint, ECS resources) 4️⃣ Create GitHub Workflows Directory 🔹 Set up .github/workflows structure 🔹 Understand GitHub Actions file organization 5️⃣ Generate SSH Deploy Key 🔹 Generate SSH key pair for private module access 🔹 Configure deploy key on modules repository 6️⃣ Create Slack Webhook 🔹 Create Slack App 🔹 Enable Incoming Webhooks 🔹 Configure notification channel 7️⃣ Configure GitHub Repository Secrets 🔹 Add AWS credentials 🔹 Add database password 🔹 Add SSH private key 🔹 Add Slack webhook URL 8️⃣ Create Pipeline Scripts 🔹 Organize manual vs pipeline scripts 🔹 Create build-image.sh for pipeline 🔹 Create push-image.sh for pipeline 9️⃣ Create GitHub Actions Workflow 🔹 Configure workflow triggers and environment variables 🔹 Job 1: Deploy AWS Infrastructure (Terraform) 🔹 Job 2: Build, Scan, and Push Docker Image (Trivy + ECR) 🔹 Job 3: Create New Task Definition Revision 🔹 Job 4: Restart ECS Fargate Service 🔹 Job 5: Test Application Health 🔹 Job 6: Monitor ECS Deployment 🔹 Job 7: Rollback on Failure 🔹 Job 8: Send Slack Notification 🔟 Test & Verify Pipeline 🔹 Trigger pipeline and monitor execution 🔹 Verify all jobs complete successfully 🔹 Test rollback functionality 🔹 Verify Slack notifications 1️⃣1️⃣ Wrap-Up & Q&A End-to-end review, CI/CD best practices, and live Q&A 💡 Skills You'll Learn ✅ CI/CD fundamentals and concepts ✅ GitHub Actions workflow configuration ✅ Multi-job pipeline orchestration ✅ Job dependencies and conditional execution ✅ GitHub repository secrets management ✅ SSH deploy keys for private repositories ✅ Docker image automation and ECR integration ✅ Trivy container vulnerability scanning ✅ ECS task definition versioning ✅ Automated ECS service deployments ✅ Application health checks in pipelines ✅ Deployment monitoring and verification ✅ Automatic rollback strategies ✅ Slack webhook integration for notifications ✅ Terraform with CI/CD integration ✅ DevOps automation best practices ☁️ AWS Services Covered Amazon ECR • Amazon ECS • ECS Task Definitions • ECS Services • AWS IAM • AWS Secrets Manager • Amazon RDS • VPC & Networking • Security Groups • Application Load Balancer • Route 53 • AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) • CloudWatch 🔧 DevOps Tools Covered GitHub Actions • Terraform • Docker • Trivy • Slack • AWS CLI • SSH Keys • jq 🧠 Real-World Use Cases ✅ Automated deployments to production environments ✅ Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD integration ✅ Container orchestration pipelines ✅ Security-first deployments with vulnerability scanning ✅ Zero-downtime deployments with rolling updates ✅ Automated rollback on deployment failures ✅ Team collaboration with automated pipelines ✅ Real-time deployment notifications ✅ Secure credential management in CI/CD ✅ Enterprise DevOps workflows 🧰 Before You Join ✅ Complete Projects 1-6 or have AWS, Terraform, Docker, and ECS knowledge ✅ AWS Free Tier account ready ✅ GitHub account with repository access ✅ Slack workspace (free tier is fine) ✅ Terraform and AWS CLI installed locally ✅ Basic understanding of YAML syntax ✅ Docker installed locally 🔔 Don't Miss It! 📅 Saturday, [Date] @ 11 AM EST ✅ Click "Notify Me" ✅ Subscribe & share with your network #AWS #DevOps #GitHubActions #CICD #CloudComputing #AzeezSalu #Terraform #Docker #ECS #ECR #Containers #Automation #InfrastructureAsCode #Slack #Trivy #SecurityScanning #YouTubeLive