ASP.NET MVC AWS Elastic Beanstalk build and deploy command line

To deploy an ASP.NET project to Elastic Beanstalk using command line, you need to accomplish two steps:

1. Build your project into a IIS deploy package
2. Send the package using AWSDEPLOY

Step 1: Build your package

Using the msbuild.exe, pass the path of the project, a publish profile option with the package instructions and the "DeployOnBuild" option as true.

msbuild.exe "MyMvcProject.csproj" /p:Configuration=Release /p:PublishProfile=MyMvcProjectProfile /p:DeployOnBuild=True

In the publish profile file (MyMvcProjectProfile.pubxml)

  <PropertyGroup>
    <WebPublishMethod>Package</WebPublishMethod>
    <LastUsedBuildConfiguration>Release</LastUsedBuildConfiguration>
    <LastUsedPlatform>Any CPU</LastUsedPlatform>
    <SiteUrlToLaunchAfterPublish />
    <LaunchSiteAfterPublish>True</LaunchSiteAfterPublish>
    <ExcludeApp_Data>False</ExcludeApp_Data>
    <DesktopBuildPackageLocation>$(SolutionDir)\Build\MyMvcProject.zip</DesktopBuildPackageLocation>
    <PackageAsSingleFile>true</PackageAsSingleFile>
    <DeployIisAppPath>Default Web Site/</DeployIisAppPath>
  </PropertyGroup>

Suggestion: Try use the VisualStudio Publish option to generate this file for the first time and than you can edit it.

Step 2: Send the package to Elastic Beanstalk

Pass the package that you created above, the AWS profile name with the permissions needed to make the Beanstalk Update Environment and a "config" deploy file.

awsdeploy.exe -w -r "-DDeploymentPackage=/Build/MyMvcProject.zip" "-DAWSProfileName=%username%" "beanstalk-deploy-package.txt"

The beanstalk-deploy-package.txt file is used to specify Elastic Beanstalk deploy params

Region = us-east-1
Template = ElasticBeanstalk
UploadBucket = elasticbeanstalk-us-east-1-XXXXXXXXXXXX
Application.Name = MyMvcProject
Environment.Name = production

I hope that following this you can adjust the script to your needs.

You can find more information here on AWS DOCS

Best regards