Thanks for attending my talk on doing fun serverless things with .NET on AWS.

If you're using Visual Studio, you should install the Visual Studio tools first.

If you like using PowerShell, you can get the AWS tools for PowerShell.

Here's how to run the demos.

First, you need to create an AWS Profile if you haven't done that already. You can do that from the AWS Explorer in Visual Studio, or with the PowerShell tools.

Set-AWSCredential -AccessKey AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE -SecretKey wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY -StoreAs MyProfileName

More info on profiles can be found on amazon.com.

Second, you need to create an S3 bucket where all this serverless code will be deployed. Again, you can do this from AWS Explorer or from PowerShell:

New-S3Bucket -BucketName my-new-bucket -Region us-east-1

Third, you need to create a role called look-ma-basic-execution for the HelloWorld simple example.

To do this, log into the AWS Console with your browser, navigate to IAM, click on Roles, and create a new role. When asked what service the role is for, choose Lambda. When asked to apply policies to the role, choose the AWS policy called AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole. Make sure you name the role look-ma-basic-execution.

Finally, most of the demos have a file called aws-lambda-tools-defaults.json. You need to replace the profile name and bucket name in those files with your own profile name and bucket name. There is also an appSettings.json file in HelloWorldClient where you should replace the profile name.

Now we can get started!

This demo creates a simple, single Lambda function. The client app executes it and demonstrates that it works.

First, deploy the HelloWorld demo. You can right click on it in Visual Studio and choose Publish to AWS Lambda. Or, from the command line, navigate to the HelloWorld directory and type:

dotnet restore
dotnet lambda deploy-function

The initial dotnet restore is required to download the AWS Lambda tooling package.

Once the function is deployed, you can run the HelloWorldClient application, either by running it in Visual Studio or from the command line with dotnet run.

If you've done everything correctly, the client should print:

Lambda Response:
"Hello, Bryan!"

Feel free to change the code to use another name.

This demo creates a simple, single Lambda function that is invoked by an API Gateway trigger.

First, deploy the HelloWorldRestApi demo. You can right click on it in Visual Studio and choose Publish to AWS Lambda. Or, from the command line, navigate to the HelloWorldRestApi directory and type:

dotnet restore
dotnet lambda deploy-serverless

The initial dotnet restore is required to download the AWS Lambda tooling package.

The deployment should give you a URL for your new rest API. Open a browser and navigate to the API URL. The full URL should look something like:

https://xxxxxxxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Prod/hello/YourName

If all goes well, you should see the following in your browser:

{"Greeting":"Hello, YourName!"}

This project demonstrates how to deploy an ASP.NET Razor Pages application using API Gateway.

First, deploy the HelloWorldAspNet demo. You can right click on it in Visual Studio and choose Publish to AWS Lambda. Or, from the command line, navigate to the HelloWorldAspNet directory and type:

dotnet restore
dotnet lambda deploy-serverless

The initial dotnet restore is required to download the AWS Lambda tooling package.

The deployment should give you a URL for your application. Open a browser and navigate to the URL. The full URL should look something like:

https://xxxxxxxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Prod

If all goes well, the home page of the web application should render.

First, deploy the HelloWorldStepFunction demo. You can right click on it in Visual Studio and choose Publish to AWS Lambda. Or, from the command line, navigate to the HelloWorldStepFunction directory and type:

dotnet restore
dotnet lambda deploy-serverless

The initial dotnet restore is required to download the AWS Lambda tooling package.

After the project is deployed, log into the AWS console with your browser and go to Step Functions. Find your new state machine and click on it. From the state machine view, click Start Execution. When prompted for the state machine input, provide some JSON:

{
    "Name": "YourName",
    "Language": "English"
}

then click Start Execution.

If all goes well, you should be shown a visualization of the workflow. The tasks that execute successfully should turn green. Click on the individual nodes in the diagram to see the inputs and outputs. If all is successful, when you click on the EnglishGreeting node, you should see the following output:

{
  "Name": "YourName",
  "Greeting": "Hello, YourName!"
}

If you want your own version of the pre-talk survey I did with text messaging, you first need to create an account with Twilio. Once your account is created, you need to buy a phone number. Make note of that number.

Next, in the parent directory of the LookMaNoServers solution, create a batch file called build-secrets.cmd. So, if you have the .sln file in C:\Development\ServerlessDemos, you would create this file in C:\Development. It should look like this:

@ECHO OFF
SET TwilioAccountSid=**YourAccountSid**
SET TwilioAccountAuthorizationToken=**YourAuthorizationToken**
SET TwilioPhoneNumber=**TheNumberYouBought**

You can get your Account SID and Authorization token from the Twilio dashboard. It's very important to get the phone number format correct. For US phone numbers, it should look like +1XXXYYYZZZZ. If you don't do this correctly, the demo won't work.

Once you've created the build secrets file, open a command prompt and navigate to the directory where the .sln file is. Run the build-pre-talk-survey.cmd batch file. If all goes well, you'll get a URL from the deployment like you did with the HelloWorldRestApi demo.

Open the Twilio dashboard and find your phone number. Click on it. Under the Messaging section of the number configuration, choose "WebHooks" for the Configure With field. In the A Message Comes In field, choose "WebHook" and then paste the URL of your API. Make sure "HTTP POST" is chosen as the WebHook method. Your full URL should look something like this:

https://xxxxxxxxxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Prod/receive-sms

Click Save to update the number's configuration.

If you've done everything correctly, you should be able to run the demo by sending a text message to your Twilio phone number.