Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

July 6, 2023 Daniel DonbavandLeave a comment

Welcome to the fourth and final part of our series, where we aim to tie together the knowledge and skills acquired in the previous instalments:

💻 How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7

🚀 Creating a Minimal API With ASP.NET Core That Interacts With AWS DynamoDB

🔧 Creating and Hosting An Application on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

🚢Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Today, we focus on the ultimate step in the development cycle: the implementation of Continuous Deployment using GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS). We’ll take the elements we’ve built in previous parts, and integrate them into a comprehensive, streamlined deployment process. Let’s begin.

Creating and Hosting An Application on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

June 19, 2023July 6, 2023 Daniel Donbavand3 Comments

In the ever-evolving tech landscape, the call for efficient and reliable ways to deploy applications is ringing louder than ever. But no worries! Thanks to robust tools like GitHub Actions, Docker, and the AWS Services, automating the deployment of ASP.NET Core applications to AWS ECS has become a lot easier.

This is our third post in the series of building a Slack Bot hosted in AWS. In this post we’ll delve into how to create and host our ASP.NET Core API on an Elastic Container Server (ECS).

💻 How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7

🚀 Creating a Minimal API With ASP.NET Core That Interacts With AWS DynamoDB

🔧 Creating and Hosting An Application on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

🚢Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Creating a Minimal API With ASP.NET Core That Interacts With AWS DynamoDB

June 7, 2023July 6, 2023 Daniel Donbavand3 Comments

In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of creating a simple .NET 7 API that interacts with DynamoDB. Additionally, we will integrate our SlackBot console application, which we introduced in a previous blog post How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7.

This is the second post in the series

💻 How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7

🚀 Creating a Minimal API With ASP.NET Core That Interacts With AWS DynamoDB

🔧 Creating and Hosting An Application on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

🚢 Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Before we dive into the details, it’s important to note that we could have created everything within the SlackBot console application. If you prefer that approach, feel free to do so. However, in this post, we are creating a separate Web API to allow for future integration with front-end applications, rather than solely relying on the SlackBot console application.

In this post, we are going to cover creating our ASP.NET Core API first. We will then add a ping endpoint to ensure our Web API is working as expected. Next, we will create an IAM role in the AWS Management Console, create a DynamoDB table in the AWS Management Console, add the AWSDynamoDB SDK and finally the code needed to call our DynamoDB table in AWS.

How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7

May 3, 2023July 6, 2023 Daniel Donbavand3 Comments

Welcome, readers!

I am thrilled to launch my new blog series on building a .NET 7 Slack Bot that can interact with AWS Services. In this series, we’ll also walk through the entire process of setting up an AWS Elastic Container Storage (ECS) and a continuous deployment pipeline using GitHub actions.

💻 How to Create a Custom Slack Bot with .NET 7

🚀 Creating a Minimal API Qith ASP.NET Core That Interacts With AWS DynamoDB

🔧 Creating and Hosting An Application on AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

🚢Continuous Deployment with GitHub Actions to AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)

In this first post, we’ll dive into creating the .NET 7 console application. We’ll be leveraging a 3rd party library developed by Simon Oxtoby to simplify the Slack integration process. Along the way, we’ll guide you through the setup of creating a Slack integration and show you how to implement a simple ping command in our application to verify that everything is functioning as it should.

So, buckle up, grab your favourite beverage, and let’s dive into the exciting world of .NET 7 Slack Bot development!