Node VPS Deployment

A simple GitHub action that allows everyone to deploy to a remote server that's using PM2 easily

How to use the action?

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v2
  
  - name: Deploy to Staging
    uses: Techie-Pi/node-vps-deployment@main
    with:
      remote-path: "~/deployment/staging"
      host: 123.123.123.123
      username: "ubuntu"
      port: 2080
      password: ${{ secrets.staging-password }}
      pm2-id: "staging"

How does it work?

The action does the following:

1. Copies the repository contents to the remote server on the specified folder
2. Runs npm cior yarn install
3. Runs pm2 restart <id> with the provided ID/Name

Input arguments

Required

• remote-path - Where do you want to copy the files to?
• host - _What's the host IP address?
• username - What's the username that you're going to login into
• port - What's the port of SSH? (default: 22)
• password - What's the password of the user?`` (Note: in the future SSH Keys will be supported)
• automatic-pre-deploy - Should deploy automatically (default true)
• yarn - Use yarn instead of npm (default false)
• pm2-id - What's the ID/Name of the PM2 application?

Note: Although sensitive information such as password is used through the input arguments, it's recommended to save it on Secrets