dotnet publish - ASP.NET Core app deployed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry

I previously showed how to push a ASP .NET Core application to Pivotal Cloud Foundry by just using the source code files itself. It turns out this creates a rather large droplet and hence slows down the deployment. So here we are going to take the same demo and use "dotnet publish" to make this a lot faster. The previous post is here which is the base for this blog entry itself.

ASP.NET Core app deployed to Pivotal Cloud Foundry
http://theblasfrompas.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/aspnet-core-app-deployed-to-pivotal.html

First we need to make some changes to our project

1. Open "dotnet-core-mvc.csproj" and add "RuntimeIdentifiers" inside the "PropertyGroup" tag

  
<PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.0</TargetFramework>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>osx.10.10-x64;osx.10.11-x64;ubuntu.14.04-x64;ubuntu.15.04-x64;debian.8-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
</PropertyGroup>

2. Perform a "dotnet restore" as shown below either form a terminal windows/prompt or from Visual Studio Code itself , this step is vital and is required

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc$ dotnet restore
....

3. Now lets publish this as Release and ensure we target the correct runtime. For Cloud Foundry (CF) that will be "ubuntu.14.04-x64" and the framework version is 1.0 as we created the application using 1.0 , we could of used 1.1 here if we wanted to.

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc$ dotnet publish --output ./publish --configuration Release --runtime ubuntu.14.04-x64  --framework netcoreapp1.0
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.1.548.43366
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  dotnet-core-mvc -> /Users/pasapicella/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc/bin/Release/netcoreapp1.0/ubuntu.14.04-x64/dotnet-core-mvc.dll

4. Finally cd into the "Publish" folder and verify there are the required DLL's as well as project files, JSON files , everything ready to run your application.

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc/publish$ ls -lartF
total 116848
-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff    25992 Jun 11  2016 Microsoft.Win32.Primitives.dll*

..

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff      168 Mar 16 22:33 appsettings.Development.json*

drwxr-xr-x    7 pasapicella  staff      238 Mar 21 08:01 wwwroot/

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff     1332 Mar 21 08:01 dotnet-core-mvc.pdb*

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff     8704 Mar 21 08:01 dotnet-core-mvc.dll*

drwxr-xr-x    6 pasapicella  staff      204 Mar 21 08:01 Views/

drwxr-xr-x   16 pasapicella  staff      544 Mar 21 08:01 ../

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff      362 Mar 21 08:01 web.config*

drwxr-xr-x   79 pasapicella  staff     2686 Mar 21 08:01 refs/

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff       92 Mar 21 08:01 dotnet-core-mvc.runtimeconfig.json*

-rwxr--r--    1 pasapicella  staff   297972 Mar 21 08:01 dotnet-core-mvc.deps.json*

drwxr-xr-x  212 pasapicella  staff     7208 Mar 21 08:01 ./

5. Now this time lets "cf push" using the files in the "Publish" folder and

pasapicella@pas-macbook:~/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc/publish$ cf push pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo -b https://github.com/cloudfoundry/dotnet-core-buildpack -m 512m
Creating app pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo in org apples-pivotal-org / space development as papicella@pivotal.io...
OK

Using route pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo.cfapps.io
Binding pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo.cfapps.io to pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo...
OK

Uploading pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo...
Uploading app files from: /Users/pasapicella/pivotal/software/dotnet/dotnet-core-mvc/publish
Uploading 14.8M, 280 files
Done uploading
OK

Starting app pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo in org apples-pivotal-org / space development as papicella@pivotal.io...
Creating container
Successfully created container
Downloading app package...
Downloaded app package (23.7M)
-----> Buildpack version 1.0.13
ASP.NET Core buildpack version: 1.0.13
ASP.NET Core buildpack starting compile
-----> Restoring files from buildpack cache
       OK
-----> Restoring NuGet packages cache
-----> Extracting libunwind
       libunwind version: 1.2
       OK
       https://buildpacks.cloudfoundry.org/dependencies/manual-binaries/dotnet/libunwind-1.2-linux-x64-f56347d4.tgz
       OK
-----> Saving to buildpack cache
       Copied 38 files from /tmp/app/libunwind to /tmp/cache
       OK
-----> Cleaning staging area
       OK
ASP.NET Core buildpack is done creating the droplet
Exit status 0
Uploading droplet, build artifacts cache...
Uploading build artifacts cache...
Uploading droplet...
Uploaded build artifacts cache (995K)
Uploaded droplet (23.8M)
Uploading complete
Destroying container
Successfully destroyed container

1 of 1 instances running

App started


OK

App pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo was started using this command `cd . && ./dotnet-core-mvc --server.urls http://0.0.0.0:${PORT}`

Showing health and status for app pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo in org apples-pivotal-org / space development as papicella@pivotal.io...
OK

requested state: started
instances: 1/1
usage: 512M x 1 instances
urls: pas-dotnetcore-mvc-demo.cfapps.io
last uploaded: Mon Mar 20 21:05:08 UTC 2017
stack: cflinuxfs2
buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/dotnet-core-buildpack

     state     since                    cpu    memory          disk          details
#0   running   2017-03-21 08:06:05 AM   0.0%   39.2M of 512M   66.9M of 1G