diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4a2d8af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+name: Deploy to ECR
+# updated secrets
+on: 
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+jobs:
+  
+  build:
+    
+    name: Build Image
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+   
+    steps:
+
+    - name: Check out code
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Login to Amazon ECR
+      id: login-ecr
+      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecr-login@v1
+      env:
+        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+        AWS_SESSION_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.AWS_SESSION_TOKEN }}
+        AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+
+    - name: Build, test, tag, and push image to Amazon ECR
+      env:
+        ECR_REGISTRY: ${{ steps.login-ecr.outputs.registry }}
+        SQL_REPOSITORY: mysql
+        WEB_REPOSITORY: webapp
+        IMAGE_TAG: v0.1
+      run: |
+        # Docker build command
+        docker build -t $ECR_REGISTRY/$SQL_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG -f Dockerfile_mysql .
+        docker build -t $ECR_REGISTRY/$WEB_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG -f Dockerfile .
+        docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/$SQL_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG
+        docker push $ECR_REGISTRY/$WEB_REPOSITORY:$IMAGE_TAG
+
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9dded45..9b9ff3e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ WORKDIR /app
 RUN set -xe \
     && apt-get update -y \
     && apt-get install -y python3-pip \
-    && apt-get install -y mysql-client 
+    && apt-get install -y mysql-client \
+    && apt-get install -y mysql-client \
+    && apt-get install -y iputils-ping
 RUN pip install --upgrade pip
 RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
 EXPOSE 8080
 ENTRYPOINT [ "python3" ]
-CMD [ "app.py" ]
\ No newline at end of file
+CMD [ "app.py" ]
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c16a70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#  Define the provider
+provider "aws" {
+  region = "us-east-1"
+}
+
+# Data source for availability zones in us-east-1
+data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {
+  state = "available"
+}
+
+# Data block to retrieve the default VPC id
+data "aws_vpc" "default" {
+  default = true
+}
+
+# Launch EC2 instance
+resource "aws_instance" "web_instance" {
+  ami                         = data.aws_ami.latest_amazon_linux.id
+  instance_type               = "t2.micro"
+  iam_instance_profile 	      = "LabInstanceProfile"
+  key_name                    = "clo835_assign1"
+
+ 
+ user_data = <<-EOF
+    #!/bin/bash
+    yum update -y
+    amazon-linux-extras install docker -y
+    service docker start
+    usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
+ EOF
+}
+
+# Create ECR repository
+resource "aws_ecr_repository" "webapp_repo" {
+  name = "webapp"
+}
+
+resource "aws_ecr_repository" "mysql_repo" {
+  name = "mysql"
+}
+