diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-on-aws.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-on-aws.yml
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+# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions
+name: Deploy to AWS ECR
+# Controls when the workflow will run
+on:
+  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the master branch
+  push:
+    branches: [test/github-ecr-action]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [test/github-ecr-action]
+jobs:
+build:
+name: Build Image
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+# Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job
+    steps:
+    
+      - name: Check out code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Configure AWS credentials
+              uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
+              with:
+                aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+                aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+                aws-region: ap-south-1
+      - name: Login to Amazon ECR
+              id: login-ecr
+              uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1
+      - name: Build, tag, and push image to Amazon ECR
+              env:
+                ECR_REGISTRY: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}
+                ECR_REPOSITORY: code-problems
+                IMAGE_TAG: ${{ github.sha }}
+              run: |
+                # Build a docker container and push it to ECR 
+                docker build -t $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG .
+                echo "Pushing image to ECR..."
+                docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG
+                echo "::set-output name=image::$ECR_REGISTRY/$ECR_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG"
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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+# pull the official base image (Background o.s for container)
+FROM python:3.9.7
+
+# image comes with gpg 2.x but we need gpg 1.x
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get remove -y gnupg && \
+    apt-get install -y gnupg1
+