Deploy Your Java Spring Boot Application on AWS EC2 Using GitHub Actions and Docker

Supercharge your application in production using GitHub Actions and AWS instance EC2

Source: Shubham Kumar

Introduction

Deploying an application on cloud servers is not an easy task let alone handling continuous deployment.

In this article, we will deploy a dockerized version of spring boot application on AWS EC2 instance using GitHub Actions and will also configure nginx for reverse proxy.

You can follow this article for deploying any application on AWS EC2 using GitHub Actions.

I will assume you have an Ubuntu EC2 instance running with an attached security group.

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Application

Let’s create a dummy spring boot application. Visit https://start.spring.io/ and create a project. We will be using Java 11 and Maven for…