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Netflix CI/CD Deployment

This project explores the process of building and deploying a containerized movie application using Docker, GitHub Actions, Amazon ECR and Amazon EC2. It helped me understand how container images move from a development repository to a cloud-hosted application.

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Netflix CI/CD Deployment

PROJECT WALKTHROUGH

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

From source code to running containers

The goal was to explore a practical container deployment path for a movie application. The project connects source code in GitHub with a CI/CD workflow that builds container images, publishes them to Amazon ECR, and runs the tagged images on an EC2 server.

This flow makes the image handoff between development and the cloud environment easier to follow. The workflow below summarizes the stages covered by the project.

CI/CD WORKFLOW

The deployment path

Follow the image from its source through the registry to the EC2 host.

  1. 01

    GitHub repository

    Application source is stored in GitHub.

  2. 02

    GitHub Actions

    The workflow runs from the repository.

  3. 03

    Build Docker images

    Build the frontend and backend images.

  4. 04

    Push to Amazon ECR

    Publish the tagged images to their repositories.

  5. 05

    Pull images on EC2

    Pull the intended image tags onto the server.

  6. 06

    Run containers

    Start the application containers on EC2.

IMPLEMENTATION

Containers, registry and EC2

The frontend and backend are packaged as separate Docker images. The images are pushed to Amazon ECR repositories, then the selected tags are pulled onto an EC2 instance and run as application containers.

GitHub Actions is part of the CI/CD workflow for building and publishing the images. This page describes the documented stages without claiming that every EC2 deployment step runs automatically.

TOOLS & SERVICES

Technologies used

CHALLENGE & LESSON LEARNED

Check the image tag first

Image tags matter when pulling from Amazon ECR. Pulling a default or incorrect tag instead of the intended version can make troubleshooting confusing because the server may receive a different image than expected.

Before investigating permissions, confirm that the image repository and tag in the pull command match the image that was pushed. This simple check helps distinguish a naming or version mismatch from an access issue.

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