Topic: GitHub Actions

The more complex your application and architecture becomes, the more complex your deployment process usually gets. Most people and engineering teams only think about pipelines as a fix path of actions, that need to happen in a specific order. That’s true, no questions about that. But your process for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery does not need to be a monolith!

During Re:Invent 2020, AWS announced Container Image Support for AWS Lambda functions using the AWS Elastic Container Registry. Personally, I think this is a great feature. With supporting docker images, AWS Lambda has immutable deployment artifacts!

The Example for Continuous Deployment with Github Actions and AWS ECR uses a GitHub Deployment to trigger releases of tagged docker images. Using GitHub Actions, a task can be triggered for every created deployment.

Automated releases and deployments wil speed up your development prozess. After setting up Semantic Releases, a tagged software version can be deployed with GitHub Actions. For projects using Amazon Elastic Container Registry, you might want to build and tag a docker image for every GitHub release.

If you stick to Conventional Commits for your commit messages, you can create tags and releases with GitHub Actions for every code change you push to a repository. This is great for automated and continuous releases!