CI/CD with AWS EC2 (Best for Full Stack Projects or Laravel API)

🔧 Step-by-Step Guide

🟢 Step 1: Prepare EC2 Server (One-Time)

• Launch an EC2 Ubuntu instance

• Install Node.js, Git, PM2 (or Laravel + PHP + MySQL stack)

• Clone your GitHub repo on the server

• sudo apt update

• sudo apt install nodejs npm git

• git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-portfolio.git

• cd your-portfolio

• npm install

• npm run build

• npm start # or use pm2 start npm --name "portfolio" -- start

🟢 Step 2: Create a .env File (if needed)

NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_NAME="Vivek Rastogi"

🟢Step 3: Set up GitHub Actions Workflow

In your GitHub repo, create:

• mkdir -p .github/workflows

Create deploy.yml inside that folder:

Step 4: Add GitHub Secrets

In GitHub:

• Go to your repo → Settings → Secrets → Actions

• Add:

  • EC2_HOST = your EC2 public IP

  • EC2_USER = usually ubuntu

  • EC2_KEY = your private SSH key (not .pem, convert to plain text)