Deployment failed: Error: Status: 403. Message: Node run failed with exit code 2

I’m having troubles getting beanstalk-deploy to work inside my GitHub Actions, keep getting 403 error.

Run einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy@v1
  with:
    aws_access_key: ABC123
    aws_secret_key: XYZ789
    application_name: our-beanstalk-app
    environment_name: our-beanstalk-app-env
    region: ca-central-1
    version_label: 8
    deployment_package: deploy.zip
  env:
    CI: true
    AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ABC123
    AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: XYZ789
Uploading file to bucket elasticbeanstalk-ca-central-1-302080953439

##[error]Deployment failed: Error: Status: 403. Message: 
##[error]Node run failed with exit code 2

I installed the package locally and able to successfully run it from the command line:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=ABC123 AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XYZ789 beanstalk-deploy our-beanstalk-app our-beanstalk-app-env 8 ca-central-1 deploy.zip

Any ideas why it’s working from the command line but not via GitHub Actions?

[varl]

I also got 403 errors when I used $GITHUB_RUN_ID

I changed it to ${{ github.run_id }} and it worked correctly.

I noticed a similar problem when I was using a env var $AWS_REGION for the region key, and that also worked when I changed to use the context syntax: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}.

[einaregilsson]

@varl Ah ok I understand. Of course, it makes sense. Can’t use $ENVVAR syntax in parameter values, since that’s not bash, only in strings that are evaluated in the bash shell, e.g. anywhere in a - run: some comand that goes to bash $ENVVAR . In parameter values you must use ${{ env.VAR_NAME }}syntax.

Oh, and by the way, it is possible to just pass in a Dockerrun.aws.json file instead of a zip as well:

Good to know. People read these issues, so good to have this info here 🙂