Deploy a Spring Boot Application to AWS EC2 with Docker and GitHub Actions
Learn how to containerize a Spring Boot application, deploy it to AWS EC2 using Docker, and automate deployments with GitHub Actions. This guide walks through the architecture, configuration, deployment workflow, and common issues.
Deploy a Spring Boot Application to AWS EC2 with Docker and GitHub Actions
Deploying a Spring Boot application manually to a server works for a first project, but it quickly becomes repetitive.
A more practical workflow is:
Code → GitHub → GitHub Actions → Docker Image → AWS EC2 → Running Application
In this article, we'll build that workflow step by step.
Architecture
The deployment architecture looks like this:
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