Create a AWS S3 bucket with Github Actions

Below we are going to run a Github Action that creates a S3 bucket in AWS Cloud

Github workflows have AWS CLI commands built in so all you need to do it run the command See this link for more information

Create a GiHub account

Create a new repository

Setup file for workflow

• Folder named .github
• Folder in .github called workflows
• Create a file called addS3BucketAWS.yml
• See Link for more info

Add Below code to workflow file

• This code is setup only to run when you click action in repository

# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions

name: addS3BucketAWS

# Controls when the action will run. 
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the main branch
  # push:
  #  branches: [ main ]

  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:

  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:

   # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master

      - name: Upload to S3
        run: |
          aws s3 mb s3://<ADD BUCKET NAME MAKE SURE IT'S UNIQUE>
        env:
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
          AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: 'eu-west-1'

• Change this in your action

  <ADD BUCKET NAME MAKE SURE IT'S UNIQUE>
  

  • Change it to a unique name. Remember S3 names are publicly chosen. Add a random string to end of your bucket name to make sure its unique eg. I used az-test-bucket-8923yhr98uh

• Create AWS Keys

• Log into your AWS portal
• Click your cloud name
• Click 'My Security Credentials'
• Click create
• Here you will have 2 keys which you will need to add to your repository

Add keys to your GitHub Repository

• Click settings in your repository
• Then secrets
• Add repository secrets named AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and add relevant keys from your keys created in your AWS Account

Commit and push code if you havent already

Run your action

• In your repo
• Click Actions
• Select Action to run
• Click run workflow

If successful you should have a complete success workflow like below

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Credits

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59166099/github-action-aws-cli
• AWS CLI commands https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-services-s3-commands.html#using-s3-commands-managing-buckets-creating
• Image https://chillplanet.org/tag/aws/
• Image https://www.coletiv.com/blog/android-github-actions-setup/