Hello everyone!

I want to share how to automatically deploy .NET Web API to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. We will use GitHub Action as a deployment tool.

Please take a look at my strategy for the deployment process.

1. Publish the .NET Application
2. Zip the published .NET Application
3. Set up the EB (Elastic Beanstalk) CLI
4. Deploy with eb deploy --staged

Infrastructure Provisioning

Thanks to SAGAR/SHANKY for providing a great tutorial to provision AWS Elastic Beanstalk using Terraform. Please take a look into at their article. If you are curious my adoption, please take a look here.

If you are unsure how to use the Terraform, no worries. I would like to explain Terraform and AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the next article. You may provision AWS Elastic Beanstalk manually.

Setting up GitHub Action

As mentioned at the beginning of my strategy, you may need to find these detailed steps of the Pipeline. You may need to check in the repository.

name: Deploy .NET on: push: branches: - main jobs: build_deploy: name: Build & Deploy runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout source code uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v3 with: dotnet-version: '6.0.x' - name: Publish run: dotnet publish WebApi -o site - name: Generate deployment package run: cd site; zip -r ../deploy.zip . -x '*.git*'; cd .. - name: Upload .NET to artifact uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: dotnet-zip path: deploy.zip - name: Setup EB CLI run: | python --version pip --version pip install awsebcli --upgrade --user eb --version - name: Configure AWS credentials uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v2 # More information on this action can be found below in the 'AWS Credentials' section with: role-to-assume: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_TO_ASSUME }} role-session-name: ${{ secrets.AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME }} aws-region: 'ap-southeast-1' - name: Deploy to EB run: eb deploy dotnet-env-dev --staged 

Additionally, I added a step of uploading to the artifact to archive the published result.

Room of improvement:

• Using multiple stages/jobs
• Setting tools using Docker container, provide the tools of Elastic Beanstalk CLI using Docker, and set that as the action.

References & Artifacts

• How to Launch AWS Elastic beanstalk using Terraform thanks to SAGAR/SHANKY.

Repository

Deployed Version

Thank you

Thank you for reading my short article. Feel free to give feedback in the comment section. Have a great day!