AWS CLOUDFORMATION - Build Deploy Pipeline Using GITHUB ACTIONS | .NET ON AWS

[@MarianoGomezBidondo]

excellent video! Clear and concise. Thank you very much for posting it!

[@RahulNath]

You're very welcome Mariano and thank you for letting me know! Do let me know if you have any AWS topic suggestions. You can check out my full AWS Series here bit.ly/aws-net-series

[@MarianoGomezBidondo]

@@RahulNath I would like to see an example of how to make a complete api where you have many endpoints and how to group them into functions. As far as I see you would be using a function for each endpoint, but for a large api it would get out of control quickly. Perhaps a function for each instance and that inside can discriminate by type of HTTP call and by the parameters. Thanks!

[@MarianoGomezBidondo]

For example, I have 3 endpoints: 1-Obtain data from a book. GET www.MyApi.com/book/33 2-Add a new book POST www.MyApi.com/book (some book data posted) 3-Get the books related to the given id GET www.MyApi.com/book/33/related These would be 3 different endpoints with 3 lambda functions. Wouldn't it be better to have a single lambda function that receives the 3 calls and can discriminate inside what you want to get? On the other hand, did you test to implement minimal api in a lambda function? Regards!!

[@RahulNath]

@@MarianoGomezBidondo Yes all of these are options - I guess it boils down to load you are expecting and how independent you want to keep. I will do a video on something on these lines - Added to my list

[@AnilBhanushali]

Thank you Rahul for making this video. This is one of the precise and clear explanation on using cloud formation with Github actions. 👏

[@RahulNath]

You are most welcome Anil. Check out the full AWS Series here bit.ly/aws-net-series

[@vivekmahajan6752]

Great video Rahul

[@babeldennis]

Thank you so much for this..very useful for beginners

[@RahulNath]

Glad it was helpful Deepak. Hope you are enjoying the full series bit.ly/aws-net-series

[@babeldennis]

@@RahulNath Thanks Rahul.. Haven't got chance to go through full playlist as I just wanted to know how to use GitHub actions with cloud formation template for automated testing/deploying of django web app.

[@RahulNath]

@@babeldennis Makes sense - Don't look into the Series, it's all .NET 😅

[@babeldennis]

@@RahulNath hehe thanks man

[@amarnatha1614]

Thank you so much sir

[@RahulNath]

Glad you like it Amarnath! And you can call me Rahul 😀

[@mericozkayagan3893]

Perfect video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us :)

[@RahulNath]

Glad you enjoyed it! Not a lot of comments for this video so thank you for dropping in 😀 Do let me know if you have any AWS topic suggestions. Trying to build up my series bit.ly/aws-net-series

[@pratapkorlepara3688]

Excellent video Rahul!!! Very easy to understand and concise, Thanks for making such a fantastic video. Just like a planning phase in Terraform is it possible to review the changes before approving the changes to production? Something kind of dry-run before applying on production that shows the updates its going to make

[@jaswanth_kumar_k]

good explanation

[@RahulNath]

Thank you and happy you liked it! Do check out the full AWS Series here bit.ly/aws-net-series

[@jaswanth_kumar_k]

@@RahulNath tq will refer it....I am facing an issue while running CFN template from github actions .. getting error "failed to create/update the stack. run the following command to fetch the list of events leading up to the failure" can u please help

[@RahulNath]

@@jaswanth_kumar_k possibly this stackoverflow.com/questions/51206820/failed-to-create-update-stack-in-aws Hard to tell without seeing the error. Possibly not enough IAM user rights

[@emanuelcordovamontiel1017]

Hi, Rahul! Do you have a video where you explain how to build a CloudFormation's template with API Gateway and Lambda Functios with .NET?

[@ChrisBuckmaster-y8u]

This is great thanks Rahul! What I have found though is when updating my code and running the workflow, although the updates are in the lambda zip file that gets stored on S3, the Lambda function doesn't seem to read these changes - do I need to include something in the workflow to refresh the lambda?

[@RahulNath]

Did you sort this out?

[@ChrisBuckmaster-y8u]

@@RahulNath Yes I did, I did it a different way by passing through the build artifact key and s3 bucket as parameters that change each time, which means the lambda function updates - because the s3 zip file name doesn't change, it doesn't update the lambda and there isn't a clean way of updating this in CloudFormation that I could find.

[@rohit704]

Hey Rahul tank you . It was an one of the best video . If possible please make similar videos for microservice / web API deployment on aws through cicd pipeline.

[@RahulNath]

Thank you Rohit! Glad you like it. What services do you use in AWS? Are you using the Serverless technologies or hosting on EC2

[@surendrayadav-kc4oo]

excellent! do you have architecture diagram for this

[@RahulNath]

Thank you . There are tools that help you visualise CloudFormation templates. This for example docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/working-with-templates-cfn-designer.html Hope that helps

[@roshinptk]

Insted of Github pipeline, how to do CI and CD through Azure DevOps? Do you have any resource explaining this? In my case I am using AWS Serverless Application, which was stored in the Azure Repo, trying to integreate Azure Devops CICD to deploy to AWS stacks.

[@RahulNath]

Haven't done this before, but guess you should be able to use this task marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.aws-vsts-tools Mostly it's about running the cloudformation template from the build/deploy pipeline. Are you facing any issues?

[@AmanKumar-eh3xi]

On making change to code cloudformation is not updating the lambda

[@riteshkavankar]

Hey thanks for the video! I have one query to ask. I have created artifact successfully. But want to deploy on AWS server, i have publishing profile that contains server details like server URL,userid, password,site name etc. I am looking for action to deploy my artifact there. If you have any idea then plz help.

[@AmitKumar-fw7fv]

Thanks for the video Rahul it was helpful. I have one query while deploying any IAM resources I am getting CAPABILITIES_IAM error please suggest

[@RahulNath]

yeah remember getting this - were you able to resolve it? Did the template have anything with that attribute in it?

[@codeblitzio]

Whenever any IAM changes are to be made, AWS requires an acknowledgement from the user. In the Console this can be done by clicking a checkbox. When using CloudFormation the user has to append a parameter onto the command such as CAPABILITY_IAM

[@minute_mastery26636]

What is the artifact thing? Is it compulsory to include in our file. Let me tell you about my use case. I ve created stacks on cloud formation and in that stacks I've lambda functions, dynamo db and api gatway linked. I want to trigger github actions. Kindly guide me about it

[@RahulNath]

Hope you were able to solve your issue Noman.

[@rohit704]

Hey Rahul , What are other and best way to deploy microservices or net core rest API on aws ? Can we do this by using docker ? Please make videos if you think question is relevant.

[@RahulNath]

Hey Rohit, Sorry missed this comment. Yes there are a variety of ways, I will cover a few in my upcoming videos. What services in AWS are you using? Where are you hosting your REST API's?

[@NicolásMendoza-v8e]

Ok Ok, and the repository example??

[@RahulNath]

Sample here github.com/rahulpnath/youtube-samples