Introduction

In this documentation, I’ll walk you through how I deployed my Mediplus application to an Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) cluster and managed it with ArgoCD.

This project combines several DevOps concepts — containerization, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, GitOps, and cloud automation.

By the end of this process, I successfully had my Mediplus app running on AWS, with continuous delivery handled by GitHub Actions and ArgoCD

Aims and Objectives

My main goals for this project were to:

• Create a scalable EKS cluster (Staging-cluster) on AWS.
• Set up a private ECR repository (medplux) to host container images.
• Configure GitHub Actions for continuous integration and deployment.
• Use ArgoCD to achieve GitOps-based application management.
• Manage and visualize deployments seamlessly through the ArgoCD UI

Step 1: Creating the EKS Cluster

1.1 Cluster Setup

I started by creating a new cluster named Staging-cluster in the AWS Management Console.

• I went to EKS → Add cluster → Create.
• Gave it the name Staging-cluster.
• Chose region us-east-1.
• Configured networking and selected an IAM role for the cluster.

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