- STEP1 - Login to AWS console and create EC2 instance
- STEP2 - Setup GitHub Repo and Push your project
- STEP3 - Login to EC2 instance
- STEP4 - Setup GitHub Action runner on EC2 instance
- STEP5 - Create GitHub Secrets for managing environment variables
- STEP6 - Create CI/CD Workflow using GitHub Action
- STEP7 - Install nodejs and nginx on EC2 instance
sudo apt update
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y nginx- STEP8 - Install pm2
sudo npm i -g pm2- STEP9 - Config nginx and restart it
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
sudo nano default
location /api {
rewrite ^\/api\/(.*)$ /api/$1 break;
proxy_pass http:https://localhost:5000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
sudo systemctl restart nginx- STEP10 - Run backend api in the background as a service using pm2
pm2 start server.js --name=BackendAPI- STEP11 - Add the command in yml script of project to restart the nodejs api server after every push to the repo
run: pm2 restart BackendAPI