Auto Deploy Nodejs Rest API on AWS EC2 | CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions

Hello everyone! In this video, we will set up automatic deployment of Nodejs Rest API on AWS EC2 instance using GitHub Actions
The API was built using Express ( Node.js framework ) and MongoDB Atlas which is a NoSQL cloud database platform.
You'll learn How to:
➤ Login to the AWS console and create an EC2 instance
➤ Setup GitHub Repo and Push your project
➤ Login to EC2 instance using Windows Powershell as well as PuTTY
➤ Setup GitHub Action runner on the EC2 instance
➤ Create GitHub Secrets for managing environment variables
➤ Create CI/CD Workflow using GitHub Action
➤ Install nodejs and nginx on the EC2 instance
➤ Install pm2, a process manager for Node.js production applications
➤ Configure nginx and how to restart it
➤ Run backend node.js rest api built using the express framework in the background as a service using pm2
➤ Add the command in yml script of the project to restart the nodejs api server after every push to the repo
➤ Support me by COMMENT, LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE
➤ Channel link - / @webwizard8
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[@webwizard8]

GitHub Repo - github.com/kalyansaxena/nodejs-restapi-ec2 GitHub Actions - github.com/features/actions AWS Management Console - aws.amazon.com/console/

[@pulsechainalltheway1845]

This is amazing, I have been looking for a video that properly explains the whole process of deploying a Nodejs app with a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub actions. Thanks a lot.

[@taufikalam4408]

Great man, you have covered almost everything. Thank you!

[@shyam-bh]

After researching and viewing so many resources, this is what i was looking for, thank you so much for this video. Keep posting such videos.

[@uvaishassan]

I spent hours searching for help on this exact thing, this was the only video that left me satisfied. Thanks for the video

[@webwizard8]

I'm glad that the video met your needs and left you satisfied! Your kind feedback motivates me to create more content. Thanks for watching and for your support! 😊

[@MayankMishra-oy5xe]

Very well structured and clean explanation. Please do continue to make these kind of videos. Good luck. You got a subscriber !

[@bishnupandey8615]

such a amazing video i have never watched that kind of simple video

[@breezycodes]

Wow.. i have been doing env variable loading wrong all along 😂😂😂. Thank you. I never thought about doing it this way

[@zackOverflow]

WOW!!! You are the best man!. Thank you so much, you nailed it.

[@amardeep6088]

It was the best video ever for this. I followed every step of yours. whenever I have to modify something according to my need I just ask chat-gpt. Thanks a lot!

[@webwizard8]

Thank you for your kind words!! I'm really happy that it helped you!

[@AbhayRamteke-o4p]

This is the best video i have ever seen on this topic keep growing brother

[@nehjain]

Great Video, lots of information, I was exactly looking for this! 😍

[@abdelrehmanmamdouh2403]

Thanks a lot, this really helped and cleared a lot of struggles

[@soburalasu6736]

Thank you my friend. You saved my job

[@altairfarooque8663]

Thank you very much ,for sharing this content . It saved me lot of time and have gained lot of knowledge.

[@uzochukwuamarabenneth2583]

Great video, a cool addition would be adding different environments (prod, dev, staging)

[@joetrades2472]

With the stuff he taught is enough to do it yourself. Just create the pm2 instances for each branch and the corresponding github action logic for it

[@uzochukwuamarabenneth2583]

@ yeah, I’ve done it severally, just pointed out an improvement cos anyone that wants to implement this would most definitely want separate environments.

[@harshitbhargav6288]

Amazing video and learn how to deploy node js app with CI/CD pipeline via github actions this process can reduce manually work.

[@DaniyalSohail-p5j]

Kudos brother. Keep up the good work.

[@alibahman-mk3ib]

very very useful and easy to understand .thanks bro

[@tuphamanh9766]

nice tutorial video, helped me understand this concept alot

[@shehzadali6713]

Thanks, Amazingly explained man Could you please make a video on eks , load balancing nodejs ci CD pipeline

[@iayushch]

Thankyou so much brother. you are own, you saved my lots of time

[@__mas]

Very clear explanation - well done and thank you!

[@webwizard8]

Thank you, Glad it was helpful!

[@huzaifa_a4602]

Thank you, it was a wealth of knowledge. 😁😊

[@ArtemiiVorobev]

Thank you! Very useful video!

[@Richie98-p8k]

Hi bro, Loved your explanation on this video. Thank you soo much for this content. Please make more videos, Don't stop it

[@webwizard8]

Thank you, More to come!

[@ibadshaikh2215]

Thanks alot for this amazing video!

[@Manish___Choudhary]

Loved it ❤️👍

[@UditNagar-of5su]

Best Resource...Thanks sir ❤❤

[@Hoid1014]

you are God bro. Thank you

[@kuldeeppanwar9513]

Thanks bro new skill added😅👍

[@Mainak908]

Plz zoom a little bit...there r many mobile viewers... overall video is good ❤

[@ok.tanmay]

thanks for the tutorial it helped a lot

[@patshalaaa]

Awesome bhaii.....subscribed

[@neutralengineer3873]

Hats off man 💪

[@anilsaipinnelli1866]

Excellent Explanation brother

[@AshenSandeep-jc5iw]

well explained. easy to deploy ,

[@AnindoSarker]

Thank you. Good video with good explanation

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found the video and explanation good

[@GauravN-ni5ps]

Thank you so much, very nice video but i have a doubt i am using the private repository so how do i configure that and run the workflow, please do give the steps for this

[@Hrit]

Clean Explanation thanks!

[@RaviKumar-b5u1u]

Really , awesome video. I have a question like in our company all the time we are reloading our machine like using pm2 reload 10 . How can we achieve that functionalities.

[@fullstack7419]

good one

[@LeulDam]

Thank you for this, can you also show how to do this with auto scaling running multiple ec2 instances?

[@KamruzZaman-x7e]

It's amazing

[@PrashantKumar-nc8gd]

Hey, can I know how you have changed the background image of powershell?

[@MOSELEY_DEV]

Thanks man!

[@joetrades2472]

Great video crack

[@dineshindn4404]

great work

[@BhoopendraBhaskar-w8n]

your rock

[@manishkini9206]

Amazing video

[@dannysalvage6236]

Thank you so much.

[@techy_satyam]

osm

[@OmerEtrog]

thank you, very helpfull

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! I'm delighted to hear that you found the video helpful. Explore the channel for more content and consider subscribing!

[@explorinsta9645]

How can i have different stages for the above ? For example I have 2 ec2 instances and I have configured runners on both of them. One for staging and one for production. How can i do it?

[@bishnudev1760]

Thanks for the tutorial buddy ❤ I have deployed my Express server into AWS EC2 but it’s on http port and getting security issue in Frontend. Can you please make a video on how to change it to https ? Would be helpful 😊

[@UptimeUnicorn]

you need to install install certificate on a application load balancer, then use SSL termination. ur EC2 will get a SSL. make sure to use route53 and AWS ACM to help u

[@kushagra4401]

thanks a lot man!!

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Explore the channel for more content and consider subscribing!

[@221miteshdevganiya2]

video is so much usefull, but brother i have one question like if i stop my instance and restart it so what i need to do ?

[@webwizard8]

Check PM2 Process List and verify express server is running or not: pm2 list If your app is not running, you can start or restart it with PM2: pm2 restart Refer to this for Automatic Startup on Boot - pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/startup/

[@ArcheSoftronix]

hi great video, But how can we do this for 3 different environment ie, development, production, qa on aws

[@7ga1336]

can we use the same instructions on ubuntu instance ?

[@king-virat-kohli]

Hi, I want to store the .env values in the github secreat. And then i want them to pull them to the docker. Which i am only able to do it for the first key value pair stored in the github secreat. I can load multi values from it. Can u help me out here?

[@sc-nc6bb]

There will be some command equivalent to docker compose -logs to see the errors of the app on the server ?

[@webwizard8]

you can use PM2's built-in logging functionality to view logs. For example, you can use the "pm2 logs" command to tail the logs in real-time.

[@yusufkaraaslan2888]

Thank you so much

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Explore the channel to find more content!

[@AmrendraChaudhary-o9r]

Hey I have been setuped all the things but I'm unable to connect api I'm getting 404 error can you help me any of one

[@SHINCHANplays26]

sir can we do the same process for MERN stack application deployment and if i changed the source code and again i merged with the existing code in the github means will the application already deployed in the ec2 also change simultaneously or we need to restart the server? i'm a student sir please reply for this question. And i wants to reach you personally is there any possible way to contact you?

[@alisalam4472]

thanks a lot bro

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Consider subscribing to the channel to get more content like this, Your support and feedback mean a lot to me!

[@franciscojosemunozgarcia6014]

Hi Is it possible to create the action using other branch?

[@sujjee]

what is diff between jenkins and github actions?

[@webwizard8]

Jenkins and GitHub Actions are both tools used in the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) process. Jenkins is an open-source automation server that allows building, deploying, and automating projects. It's highly customizable and has been in the market for a longer time, offering a wide range of plugins and integrations. On the other hand, GitHub Actions is a newer offering by GitHub that is tightly integrated with the repository. It allows you to automate tasks directly from your GitHub repository. It's well-suited for projects already hosted on GitHub and simplifies the CI/CD setup with its YAML-based workflows.

[@scotly_emi]

can you make a video on using mysql

[@WhyAlwaysMeDieFirst]

We neet to download Ubuntu in Laptop?

[@carelitos3624]

Please how to auto deploy laravel rest API on AWS EC2 | CI/CD pipeline using github Actions and apache

[@mohammadabid9520]

Hey I have been set-up all the things as per your guideline but I'm unable to connect api, I am getting 404 error can you help me any of one

[@webwizard8]

404 means not found error You need to verify the route has been implemented in your api

[@peculiarbabalola4430]

I want to understand. Why ubuntu? Is there a specific reason or prejudice?

[@neutralengineer3873]

Almost 90 percentage of website run on Linux server remotely. That's why Ubuntu is first choice of all.

[@zx__952]

before i used github action and self hosted runner, i manually push my repo to my server. so currently i start using it and now i have issue where after the workflow fully deployed, the file has been changed inside _work file, but my server is running at my home directory, how to solve this?

[@webwizard8]

did you configured nginx web server? see the video where I've showed nginx configuration, this might help the role of using github actions workflow is to clone our github repo into _work folder whenever a change made to our github main branch once the repo is available inside _work then its our responsibility to make use of web server like nginx and redirect requests to the localhost port pm2 plays role for starting and restarting your express server

[@zx__952]

@@webwizard8 so i have to pm2 start the nodejs file inside my _work folder? In my nginx, i configured it to detect /api/ and also my react build file that has been placed in /var/www/html, do i have to change this?

[@tomhardy7734]

Could you do a video on how to implement docker for this process?

[@webwizard8]

Thanks for your comment and interest in the video! I'll definitely consider creating a tutorial on implementing Docker for this process. Stay tuned for updates on my channel!

[@tomhardy7734]

@@webwizard8 Sounds great, thank you!

[@webwizard8]

@@tomhardy7734 mean time I'd recommend watching this video - kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3WxhHyqd7Nka9k

[@idelsoldier2825]

I am not getting _work folder

[@yunusyas3158]

did you find it

[@Anurag_Dhrejen]

How to make this http api request with https

[@AndranikToplaghatsyan]

Hi bro very nice video but can you help me ???? when i on pm2 start i recive 502 gatway error message and I can't fix it,,, i dont understand it .. please help me ???

[@webwizard8]

If nginx is having problem reaching out to the web server then you'll encounter 502 bad gateway error So culprit would be your express server make sure to run pm2 start command inside your repo folder where server.js file exists observe the video from 30:45 onwards

[@ttaylor9916]

Would be great without the music.

[@differentfun9797]

how can I start my Next.js project using pm2 command?

[@muhammadmoiz1593]

pm2 start "yarn start" --name "next"

[@AtomiCoding]

SSL kese kre bolo bhia

[@marklouiedullavin4668]

bakit parang malungkot ka?

[@neutralengineer3873]

Keep zooming screen

[@dhineshd68]

I want make https request how to implement that,i have a https setup in my node server,since i am developing a mobile app i used https requests

[@reactjs1900]

These runners are getting stopped after some days

[@webwizard8]

Hi, Thanks for bringing up to the notice, I'd recommend going through this docs once - docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#usage-limits

[@NarayanMaity-z5n]

@@webwizard8 hey I have a question if this self hosted runners and workflows are stopped after a certain time does this effect on my application which is in aws

[@reactjs1900]

@@NarayanMaity-z5n It will not affect you application, but new pushes will not be reflected there.

[@ttaylor9916]

no git, but lots of music references....

[@SamuelTitinho]

At this moment, you pollute the whole environment with background noise and expect someone to “watch, subscribe and share”?? 😂

[@larapiostech]

Thank u bro ..

[@webwizard8]

You're welcome! Thank you for watching!