The new AWS Tools for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide integration into many popular AWS services, such as Amazon S3, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Lambda, and more. These tools provide customers with a set of tasks they can include in build and release definitions in VSTS and on-premises TFS instances to work with AWS services. In this session, we show how you can use the new AWS Tools for VSTS in new and existing VSTS build/release pipelines to interoperate with many AWS resources. We demonstrate how you can use the build tasks in the new extensions to easily work with content in Amazon S3 buckets, perform deployments to AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments, and deploy .NET Core functions and serverless applications to AWS Lambda, all from within the familiar VSTS project console.

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AWS re:INVENT
Extending VSTS Build/Release
Pipelines to AWS
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S e n i o r S o f t w a r e D e v e l o p m e n t E n g i n e e r s
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Session outline
• Introduction to the tools
• What’s included
• Demos!

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Brief introduction to the tools
• What are the AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)?
• Where can I use them?
• Why would I use them?
Easy for existing VSTS and TFS users to add integration with and deployment to AWS
• Where do I get them?
https://aws.amazon.com/vsts
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.aws-vsts-tools
• Open source
https://github.com/aws/aws-vsts-tools

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What’s included in the tools?
Tasks for deployment:
• AWS CodeDeploy
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• .NET Core deployment to Lambda
AWS Elastic
Beanstalk
AWS
Lambda
AWS
CloudFormation
Amazon
S3
AWS
CodeDeploy
AWS
CLI
AWS Tools for
Windows PowerShell
Amazon
SNS
General purpose tasks:
• Amazon S3 uploads/downloads
• Invoking Lambda functions
• Send SNS messages
• Run cmdlets/scripts using the AWS PowerShell
Tools Module
• Run AWS CLI commands
+ AWS “Service Endpoint” credential type

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New tasks!
Amazon ECR
Systems Manager
Parameter Store
• Push Docker image to EC2
Container Registry
• New general-purpose Lambda
deployment task
• Previous task targeted at .NET
Core-based functions and
serverless applications
• Supports deployment of
functions for all supported
Lambda runtimes
• Read parameter values from store
into build variables
• Run command remotely against
Amazon EC2 and on-premise fleet
AWS
Lambda
Deployment
Systems Manager
Run Command

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Demo time

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Demo
Getting started
• Installing the tools
• Managing credentials for AWS
• Update a build to deploy to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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What did we learn?
• How to install the tools for VSTS and on-premises TFS
• Where to find the tools after installation
• Setting up credential “endpoints”
• Adding tasks to a definition
• Deploying an ASP.NET application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Configure task in Build or Release definition

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Demo
Using Systems Manager Parameter Store with VSTS Build Variables

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What did we learn?
• Different types of parameters in the Parameter Store
• How to read values from EC2 Parameter Store and use as build variables
• Read single value
• Read hierarchy of values
• Parameter name => Variable name transform options

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Demo
Deploying infrastructure and code
• Two pipelines:
• One to create deployment infrastructure
• One to deploy our code
• Tasks:
• AWS CloudFormation
• AWS CodeDeploy
• Amazon S3 download
• Parameter Store

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What did we learn?
• Using AWS CloudFormation task to set up infrastructure for deployment
• Retrieve latest Windows image ID from Parameter Store
• Passing the ID into infrastructure build via template parameters file
• Constructing the deployment bundle for AWS CodeDeploy
• Deploying the bundle using the AWS CodeDeploy task

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Writing and contributing tasks
https://github.com/aws/aws-vsts-tools
Open-source, contribute new tasks!

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Recap
In this session we have seen how to:
• Install the tools
• Configure credentials for working with AWS services
• Deploy an ASP.NET application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk from build or release pipelines
• Work with Amazon EC2 Parameter Store to customize build variables
• Setup deployment infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation and then deploy apps using AWS
CodeDeploy

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Wrap
• Tools home page:
https://aws.amazon.com/vsts
• Marketplace:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.aws-vsts-tools
• GitHub repository (contributions, report issues, feature requests):
https://github.com/aws/aws-vsts-tools
• Follow AWS .NET on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/awsfornet
• AWS .NET Developer Blog (SDK/PowerShell/VSTS/Visual Studio content):
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/category/net/

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Thank you!