This is an example to show how to deploy an application using the .NET Core Application with DB (MySQL) stack template in Bitnami Stacksmith.

1. Go to stacksmith.bitnami.com
2. Create a new application and select the .NET Core Application with DB (MySQL) stack template.
3. Select the targets you are interested on (AWS, Kubernetes,...)
4. Upload the simple-asp-net-core-2-todo-app.zip file (which can be found in releases for the project.
5. Upload the boot.sh script from the scripts/ folder.
6. Click the Create button.
7. Launch it in AWS or download the helm chart to run it in Kubernetes
8. Access your application: http://IP for AWS or http://IP:8080 for Kubernetes and Azure

There application requires a boot script that performs application specific initialization.

This script takes care of initializing the database and configuring the application: Basically, it does:

• modify appsettings.json file to specify the connection to database
• initialize and populate the database

The simple-asp-net-core-2-todo-app.zip file can also be created by building the application in the app/ folder. To build it, you need to have .NET Core SDK installed.

Simply run the following command in the app/ folder:

dotnet publish -c Release

The command sets up all required dependencies, builds the application and creates a publish folder with the application and dependencies packages.

Next, package the application - such as by doing the following:

$ cd app/bin/Release/netcoreapp2.0/publish && zip -r -9 ../simple-asp-net-core-2-todo-app.zip .