deploy_action

Deploy Action

The following GitHub action is responsible to connect to the closed VPN, login to the remote server, and execute the deploy script.

Things to do

On the remote server, ensure the following things:

1. Create a pair of public private keys and put the public key on the remote server. And note down the private key and pit it as a GitHub secrets SSH_KEY.
2. Ensure that there is a .env file which contains all the credentials, and keep it somewhere safe. Note down the path to the file and put it as a GitHub secrets ENV_PATH.

Note that path should include the file name too. For example: /workspaces/cred/.env

GitHub Secrets

You need to setup the following variables as GitHub secrets for proper functioning of deploy_to_prod workflow.

• VPN_SERVER_IP: https://XXXXXX/
• VPN_USERNAME: LADP Username
• VPN_PASSWORD: LADP Password
• VPN_SERVER_CERT: Need to set it to pin-sha256:XXXXXX value
• AUTH_GROUP: Put the auth group here
• SSH_KEY: The RSA private key, as explained in point 1 of things to do
• REMOTE_IP: Internal IP of the server on which the website needs to be deployed.
• REMOTE_USERNAME: Username of the remote server
• ENV_PATH: The ENV path, as explained in point 2 of things to do

Known issues

Sometimes [deploy_action] might fail, because of SSL connection failure: Error in the certificate.

In that case, copy the given value for Server SSL certificate. For example in the image it's pin-sha256:oc1XAIWtlODWRuMRh25lapnfS3VYF8yGlXcX8MilSp4=.

Finally update the secret.