AWS Cloud Security User Group - West Africa

Topic: Deploying to ECS/EKS using Github Actions + OIDC 🚀

Modern cloud architectures demand more than just scalable code—they require seamless, secure, and automated deployment pipelines. Moving away from long-lived credentials toward identity-based authentication is the new gold standard for production environments.
Join us as we break down the blueprint for deploying containerized applications to Amazon ECS and EKS using GitHub Actions. We will dive deep into OpenID Connect (OIDC), exploring how to establish a secure trust relationship between GitHub and AWS to eliminate the need for hardcoded IAM secrets.
Whether you're a DevOps Engineer, Backend Developer, or Cloud Architect, this session will provide the practical steps to build hardened, production-ready CI/CD pipelines 🤖☁️.

• 📅 Date: May 9th, 2026
• ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM WAT
• 📍 Location: Virtual

Meet Our Speakers

🎤 Speaker: Tolani Akintayo – Cloud DevOps Engineer
🎤 Moderator: Ibraheem Ejibode – Cloud DevOps Engineer

✅ This session will cover:

• ⚡ Secure Authentication with OIDC — Learn how to ditch static AWS Access Keys in favor of short-lived, identity-based tokens for your GitHub workflows.
• 🔗 Automated Container Orchestration — A step-by-step guide to pushing images to ECR and triggering deployments on ECS (Fargate/EC2) and EKS.
• 📈 Infrastructure as Code Integration — Understand how to manage deployment manifests and task definitions within your CI/CD flow.
• 🛠️ Real-World DevOps Use Cases — See a live breakdown of a secure, automated pipeline that handles everything from code commit to a running production cluster.