This is my deployment code in GitHub action.

- name: Deploy to EC2
    env:
      ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_KEY }}
      SECRET_KEY: ${{ secrets.SECRET_KEY }}
      SERVICE_URL: ${{ secrets.SERVICE_URL }}
      EMAILADMIN: ${{ secrets.EMAILADMIN }}
    run: |
      ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking=no" ec2-user@${{ secrets.EC2_IP }} << 'EOF'
        set -x  # Enable debugging to print all executed commands
        echo "Step 1: Docker login"
        docker login -u ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }} -p ${{ secrets.DOCKER_PASSWORD }}
        echo "Step 2: Pulling Docker image"
        docker pull ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/lms-backend:latest
        echo "Step 3: Stopping and removing existing container if it exists"
        docker stop lms-backend-container || true
        docker rm lms-backend-container || true
        echo "Step 4: Listing all Docker images"
        docker images
        echo "Step 5: Running the new Docker container"
        docker run -d -p 80:80 --name lms-backend-container
          -e ACCESS_KEY=${{ secrets.ACCESS_KEY }}
          -e SECRET_KEY=${{ secrets.SECRET_KEY }}
          -e SERVICE_URL=${{ secrets.SERVICE_URL }}
          -e EMAILADMIN=${{ secrets.EMAILADMIN }}
          ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/lms-backend:latest
        echo "Step 6: Listing all running containers"
        docker ps -a
        echo "Step 7: Checking for any references to 'piax'"
        docker ps -a | grep piax || true
      EOF

The thing is, every time I push any code to the main branch, it runs pretty much normally until it reaches this command.

docker run -d -p 80:80 --name lms-backend-container
              -e ACCESS_KEY=${{ secrets.ACCESS_KEY }}
              -e SECRET_KEY=${{ secrets.SECRET_KEY }}
              -e SERVICE_URL=${{ secrets.SERVICE_URL }}
              -e EMAILADMIN=${{ secrets.EMAILADMIN }}
              ${{ secrets.DOCKER_USERNAME }}/lms-backend:latest

Whenever it crossed this part, the same error appeared: “Unable to find image ‘piax:latest’ locally,” and I have no idea where the “piax” even came from.

I’ve checked the EC2 instance, and it shows that the Docker image was successfully pulled from Docker Hub with the correct names and labels.

It’s just that the command used to run that image into a container just doesn’t work correctlly.

Can anybody help me out on this? I’ve been stuck on this for a while now.

I’ve tried hardcode the Docker_username directly into my repository’s pipeline.yml and it still returns the same result

tried run the command (only the docker run command) directly on the Instance via SSH connection and it works so I don’t think the EC2 instance was at fault here