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

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

Deployment File

• 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

References

• dotnet publish