Automate code deploy from Git Lab to AWS EC2 Instance

Question

We are using the GitLab repository for our application. Now I'm planning to automate the deployment process so that it reflects in my testing instance. Is there any possible way to deploy code to the EC2 instance through GitLab? Any help will be appreciated!

Answer 1

One way to do that is AWS Code Deploy by using the S3 option with Gitlab-CI

Gitlab does not offer direct S3 integration but using "gitlab-ci.yml it can be downloaded into the container and then you can run the upload commands to put the generated zip file on the S3 container.

Here is the sample gitlab-ci.yml:

before_script:

  - apt-get update --quiet --yes

  - apt-get --quiet install --yes python

  - pip install -U pip

  - pip install awscli

AWS has full detailed documentation you can even refer to that.

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