GitHub Actions with .NET, Part 5 - Build a .NET Application and Upload to S3
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- Part 1 - Hello World and Downloading the Artifact
- Part 2 - Dependant Jobs
- Part 3 - Manual Approvals
- Part 4 - Building an S3 bucket with Pulumi
- Part 5 - Build a .NET Application and Upload to S3
The Basics
You need a GitHub account and an AWS account. AWS offers a free tier where you can experiment at no cost. Martin Beeby of AWS, and I chatted about this in a podcast.
GitHub Secrets
The GitHub Action workflow needs a few secrets. In your repository, go to Settings, then Secrets. Add the below secrets.
Strictly speaking, the region and the bucket name might not be real secrets, but it’s an easy way to pass them to the workflow.
The Code
This application is as simple as it gets - the goal is to build a binary, zip it, and upload it to S3.
1using System;
2
3namespace GitHubActions_Upload_to_S3
4{
5 class Program
6 {
7 static void Main(string[] args)
8 {
9 Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
10 }
11 }
12}The Workflow
To run GitHub Actions, a workflow file is needed. Add a .github/workflows directory.
Add the below code and name it with a .yaml extension. This will build the application, zip the contents of the release directory, and upload the zip to S3.
1name: Build and Upload to S3
2
3on:
4 push:
5 branches: [ main ]
6
7jobs:
8 build:
9 name: Build the app
10 runs-on: ubuntu-latest
11
12 steps:
13 - name: Checkout source code
14 uses: actions/checkout@v2
15
16 - name: Setup .NET
17 uses: actions/setup-dotnet@v1
18 with:
19 dotnet-version: 5.0.x
20
21 - name: Restore dependencies
22 run: dotnet restore
23
24 - name: Build
25 run: dotnet build -c release --no-restore
26
27 - name: Install zip
28 uses: montudor/action-zip@v1
29
30 - name: Zip output
31 run: zip -qq -r helloworld.zip bin/release/net5.0
32
33 # Not needed, but very handy when trying to figure out what the action is doing
34 #- name: Local file stuff
35 # run: pwd; ls -al; find .
36
37 - name: Upload to S3
38 uses: jakejarvis/s3-sync-action@master
39 with:
40 args: --acl public-read --follow-symlinks --exclude '*' --include 'helloworld.zip'
41 env:
42 AWS_S3_BUCKET: ${{ secrets.AWS_S3_BUCKET }}
43 AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
44 AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
45 AWS_REGION: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION }}When this code is pushed to GitHub, the Action will start. You should see output that looks like this.
And in AWS, here is the bucket, with the file that was uploaded from GitHub Actions.
Full source code available here.