Creating a continuous deployment pipeline with Github Actions and S3

It's common in today's development world to want a continuous deployment process for getting your code changes under version control to production for the world to see.  While in an organisation or medium-larger sized team there may be some steps in between push-deploy, such as code reviews, testing, staging, quality assurance, client review etc. the basic flow can be set up quite easily.  

Two of the most common tools are Github for version control, and AWS, we'll use an S3 bucket in this instance, but we could tweak to a more involved cloud infrastructure if needed.   To set up a CI/CD process with GitHub Actions to an S3 bucket, you will need to:

1. Create an S3 bucket in AWS.
2. Create a GitHub repository for your project.
3. Create a GitHub Action workflow that deploys your project to the S3 bucket.
4. Configure the GitHub Action workflow with your AWS credentials.
5. Push your code to the GitHub repository.

Here are the steps in more detail:

1. **Create an S3 bucket in AWS.**

To create an S3 bucket in AWS, you will need to:

1. Go to the AWS Management Console.
2. Click on the "S3" service.
3. Click on the "Create Bucket" button.
4. Enter a name for your bucket.
5. Select a region for your bucket.
6. Click on the "Create" button.

2. **Create a GitHub repository for your project.**

To create a GitHub repository for your project, you will need to:

1. Go to the GitHub website.
2. Click on the "Create Repository" button.
3. Enter a name for your repository.
4. Select a public or private repository.
5. Click on the "Create Repository" button.

3. **Create a GitHub Action workflow that deploys your project to the S3 bucket.**

To create a GitHub Action workflow that deploys your project to the S3 bucket, you will need to:

1. Go to your GitHub repository.
2. Click on the "Actions" tab.
3. Click on the "New workflow" button.
4. Select the "AWS" template.
5. Enter a name for your workflow.
6. In the "Jobs" section, click on the "Add job" button.
7. In the "Job name" field, enter a name for your job.
8. In the "Run on" field, select the "push" event.
9. In the "Steps" section, click on the "Add step" button.
10. In the "Step name" field, enter a name for your step.
11. In the "Action" field, select the "aws" action.
12. In the "Use" field, select the "s3" operation.
13. In the "Bucket" field, enter the name of your S3 bucket.
14. In the "Key" field, enter the key for your object in the S3 bucket.
15. In the "`Content-Type`" field, enter the content type of your object.
16. In the "`Source`" field, enter the path to your source code.
17. Click on the "Save" button.

4. **Configure the GitHub Action workflow with your AWS credentials.**

To configure the GitHub Action workflow with your AWS credentials, you will need to:

1. Go to your GitHub repository settings.
2. Click on the "Secrets" tab.
3. Click on the "New secret" button.
4. In the "Name" field, enter a name for your secret.
5. In the "Value" field, enter your AWS access key ID and secret access key.
6. Click on the "Add secret" button.

5. **Push your code to the GitHub repository.**

To push your code to the GitHub repository, you will need to:

1. Go to your local repository.
2. Run the following command:

  git push


Once you have pushed your code to the GitHub repository, the GitHub Action workflow will be triggered and your project will be deployed to the S3 bucket.