GitHub Action for invoking the ECS deploy runner

This repository contains a GitHub action that allows the user to easily invoke the Gruntwork ECS deploy runner from any repository that requires it. This is heavily based on How to configure a production-grade CI-CD workflow for infrastructure code.

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Examples
• Links
• To Do

Usage

Setup

• The following environment variables must be set:
  • AWS_ACCOUNT_ID - the AWS account ID where the ECS deploy runner is deployed
    • Make sure this is enclosed in double quotes as otherwise leading zeros will be trimmed.
  • ECS_DEPLOY_RUNNER_REGION - region where the ECS deploy runner is deployed.
  • AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - AWS credentials for the machine user that invokes the ECS deploy runner.
  • GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN - GitHub personal auth token that can be used to reach Gruntworks repositories.
• A mandatory input variable command that currently accepts the following values to execute these commands via the ECS deploy runner:
  • plan and plan-all (Terragrunt)
  • apply and apply-all (Terragrunt)
  • docker-image-build (Docker)
• A mandatory input variable context must be set to the path in which the command will be executed.

The action also accepts the following optional inputs:

• Versions of the following Gruntwork tools and modules (defaults can be viewed in action.yaml):
  • gruntwork-installer-version
  • terraform-aws-ci-version
  • terraform-aws-security-version
• The name of the main branch of the repository can be set via the following option (defaults to main):
  • main-branch-name
• The following options apply when using the docker-image-build command:
  • a build_args input variable can be used to populate the Docker build time arguments. The variable must be populated similar to how it would work when using the docker build command, with each separate argument being prepended with --build-arg - e.g. build_args: --build-arg ARG1 --build-arg ARG2.
  • The ECR_REPO_REGION environment variable must be set to determine the AWS region where the ECR repository is hosted.

Components

The action does the following:

1. It installs Gruntworks tools via a helper script. A Gruntworks subscription is required for this.
2. It uses the Gruntworks infrastructure-deployer CLI to invoke either the infrastructure-deploy-script or build-docker-image scripts on the terraform-planner, terraform-applier, or the docker-image-builder containers (depending on the command input) that are provided by default with the ECS Deploy Runner.

Examples

Below is an example of a workflow that executes terragrunt plan-all on a push to any branch, and executes a terragrunt apply-all on pushes to main. It utilizes GitHub Environments that can be used to more granularly set environment variables, and set up environment protection rules.

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - "**"

env:
  AWS_ACCOUNT_ID: 123456789012
  AWS_REGION: "us-east-1"  # Region where the ECS deploy runner is hosted.
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
  GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PAT }}  # Personal Access Token that allows access to Gruntworks private repositories

jobs:
  plan:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Check out the repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Terragrunt plan-all
        uses: vytautaskubilius/invoke-ecs-deploy-runner@v0.1.0
        with:
          command: plan-all
          context: path/to/terragrunt/config

  apply:
    needs:
      - plan
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'

    steps:
      - name: Check out the code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Terragrunt plan-all
        uses: vytautaskubilius/invoke-ecs-deploy-runner@v0.1.0
        with:
          command: apply-all
          context: path/to/terragrunt/config

Links

• How to configure a production-grade CI-CD workflow for infrastructure code

To Do

• Add ami-builder support.