How do I deploy C# projects from my own system via the terminal?

[Neo42]

I'm using a mac.   Visual Studio for Mac - Community.  The google cloud extension isn't available to me.  I would rather not use a VM to develop.  So I'd like to develop locally and then run a command to publish.  I'm assuming I'll possibly need an app. yaml file and and index.yaml file.  

[Jordan (Cloud Platform Support)]

You can deploy any custom runtime to the App Engine Flexible environment using a Dockerfile. It is recommended that you first start with the provided Quickstart Guide to running a C# project on App Engine. Once you have a working project, you can then add in your own C# application code.  

[Neo42]

That is helpful.  I didn't realize there was a Tab in the documentation for doing things va command line instead of only through visual studio.

[Neo42]

Also.  Let me see if I'm right in saying this:

Install google cloud sdk.  Done.

After building my aspnetcore app in visual studio, the primary steps needed afterwards are:

create an app.yaml file and place it in the same directory as the CSProj file.  The contents of the app.yaml file are:

runtime: aspnetcore

env: flex

run the following commands via terminal while in the same directory as the CSproj file and the App.yaml file

gcloud app create    

dotnet restore

dotnet publish -c Release

gcloud beta app deploy app.yaml 

How important is the following line?  I'm not sure I ran it.

gcloud app create    

I'm getting a error upon trying to deploy my app, but I don't know how to check the logs as it suggests.  ERROR: (gcloud.beta.app.deploy) Error Response: [2] Build failed; check build logs for details

On Friday, June 9, 2017 at 1:49:22 PM UTC-4, Jordan (Cloud Platform Support) wrote:

[Neo42]

Step #0: No .deps.json file found for the app
Finished Step #0
ERROR

What is a deps.json?  Do I need a project.json file, like the sample?  How do I configure it?

Found build history.  And the log I guess.

I found it via this.  As you run the deploy it says this:

WARNING: Checking the status of the Appengine Flexible Environment API during Appengine Flexible deployments is currently in beta.

Beginning deployment of service [default]...

Building and pushing image for service [default]

Started cloud build [some_number].

To see logs in the Cloud Console: <the link>

[Neo42]

ok.

I did a search on my computer for deps.json and it showed up in the build directories.  From where I was running the command, it looked familiar.  So...

I'm running deploy again after moving my App.yaml file to that subdirectory

gcloud beta app deploy ./bin/Release/netcoreapp1.1/publish/app.yaml


Note.  It's netcoreapp1.1 instead of 1.0.  

I'll let you know how it goes.  I'm running off a hotspot at the moment, so, this part takes forever.  

...

It's already farther than my other attempts.  Looking like it might be good.  I'll post back here again later.

[Neo42]

I finally deployed my app!    ... it has some bugs with the cloud datastore stuff, but at least I can publish now.