Deploying AWS Elastic Beanstalk Applications in .NET Using the Deployment Tool

To deploy a .NET application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

1. From the Samples subdirectory where the deployment tool is installed, open ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt and enter your AWS Access Key and AWS Secret Key as in the following example. You can find your AWS Access Key and AWS Secret Key at Access Credentials.

   ### AWS Access Key and Secret Key used to create and deploy the application instance
   AWSAccessKey = AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE
   AWSSecretKey = wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY

2. At the command line prompt, type the following:

   C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\Deployment Tool>awsdeploy.exe /w Samples\ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt

   It takes a few minutes to deploy your application. If the deployment succeeds, you will see the message, Application deployment completed; environment health is Green.

   Note

   If you receive the following error, the CNAME already exists.

   [Error]: Deployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk failed with exception: DNS name (MyAppEnv.elasticbeanstalk.com) is not available.

   Because a CNAME must be unique, you need to change Environment.CNAME in ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt.

3. In your web browser, navigate to the URL of your running application. The URL will be in the form <CNAME.elasticbeanstalk.com> (i.e., MyAppEnv.elasticbeanstalk.com).

To edit and redeploy a .NET application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

1. Extract AWSDeploymentSampleApp.zip from the Samples directory to a location on your computer such as c:\mydeploymentarchive\AWSDeploymentSampleApp.

2. Modify one of the files in the AWSDeploymentSampleApp directory. For example, you can modify the title in default.aspx.

3. In the ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt configuration file, do the following:

   • Specify the location where you extracted the files. This means modifying the value for the DeploymentPackage key in the Incremental Deployment Settings section in ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt. For example:

     C:\mydeploymentarchive\AWSDeploymentSampleApp

   • Remove the # in front of IncrementalPushRepository and DeploymentPackage.

   • Add a # in front of DeploymentPackage in the Non-Incremental Deployment Settings.

4. At the command line, type the following:

   C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\Deployment Tool>awsdeploy.exe /r Samples\ElasticBeanstalkDeploymentSample.txt

   If this command succeeds, you should see something similar to the following:

   ...environment 'MyAppEnvironment' found and available for redeployment (configuration parameters not required for redeployment will be ignored)
   ...starting redeployment to AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment 'MyAppEnvironment'
   ...starting incremental deployment to environment 'MyAppEnvironment'
   ...finished incremental deployment in 9199.9199 ms

5. In your web browser, navigate to the same URL as in Deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. You should see your updated application.