Publish Project to AWS

Full Title or Meme

Build and zip a Visual Studio dot net core 2.1+ Project for publication to Amazon Web Services.

Solution

From the website Deploying an ASP.NET core application with Elastic Beanstalk.

1. Prepare a project with all dependencies marked.
2. Add a deployment file (see section below)
3. from powershell type

Deployment File

• From the website Running multiple applications and ASP.NET core applications with a deployment manifest
• name file aws-windows-deployment-manifest.json in the project directory with "Build Action" : "Content" and "Copy to Output Directory" : "Copy always"
• Bundle the manifest and site archive in a ZIP archive to create a source bundle.

{
 "manifestVersion": 1,
 "deployments": {
   "aspNetCoreWeb": [
     {
       "name": "my-dotnet-core-app",
       "parameters": {
         "archive": "dotnet-core-app.zip"
       }
     }
   ]
 }
}

Example dotnet-core-bundle.zip
-- aws-windows-deployment-manifest.json
-- dotnet-core-app.zip

PS C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\RegistryServer> dotnet publish
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.6.0+5ff7b0c9e for .NET Core
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Determining projects to restore...
  All projects are up-to-date for restore.
  SimpleService -> C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\SimpleService\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\SimpleService.dll
  CredStore -> C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\CredStore\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\CredStore.dll
  MonitorService -> C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\MonitorService\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\MonitorService.dll
  RegistryServer -> C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\RegistryServer\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\RegistryServer.dll
  RegistryServer -> C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\RegistryServer\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1\publish\
PS C:\Users\rp_to_000\Documents\TopCat\Repos\TrustRegistry3\RegistryServer>

References

• dotnet publish