Keep .NET core web app running on kestrel in production - amazon-web-services

I'm hosting a web app on an EC2 instance in AWS. I will have nginx or an ELB in front of my web server, but on the web server itself the .net core app will be running on kestrel with dotnet Mywebsite.dll, if I understand correctly.
Whats the best way to keep this process running, and to automatically restart it is something goes wrong and to automatically start it up on reboot?
I'm currently trying to use supervisor to manage it but its adding a fair bit of complexity just getting it all up and running on a Amazon AMI.
Is there not a built in mechanism? How do you run your .net core web apps on linux in prod?

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How to automatically deploy asp.net core application to ec2 instance using jenkins?

I have hosted an ASP.NET Core web application on an EC2 instance using Nginx. The EC2 isntance is running on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS machine.
I am developing the code in windows machine and publishing the code. Then copying the files into the EC2 instance using WinSCP. The web application is running nicely and i can hit the application using postman or browser.
Now, i have decided to use jenkins for CI/CD. I have installed jenkins in the same ec2 server where my web application running. Jenkins is running in port 8080 and my web application is running in port 80. I have configured jenkins with my bitbucket repository by following this link.
Now, my jenkins server is up and running. If i commit anything in the bitbucket repository, jenkins server automatically triggers a build.
Previously, i have published the code using below command:
dotnet publish -o my-sample-site
And then copied the files from my-sample-site directory to the directory in EC2 instance. Now, i want to automatically build the asp.net core web source codes and publish the codes to the folder where my web application is running. I may have to restart the service also after changing the codes.
What should i include in the jenkins build step so that whenever bitbucket repository changes triggers build in jenkins, it will build the asp.net core source codes and then publish the codes in the directory of the EC2 instance where my web application is running.
How should i do this automatically? Any reference please. Thanks in advance.
I have set up CI/CD server using Jenkins connected to a Bitbucket repository for an ASP.NET Core Web API running in an EC2 instance. Anyone can check my article here.

Deploying a web application for Selenium testing on AWS EC2

I have a web application that uses Selenium in backend to run few scripts when invoked by user. I want to deploy this web app on AWS.
Here are my findings so far:
I can have a windows EC2 instance created and then I can install tomcat, firefox and all the necessary stuff. Then using putty or any other client, I can deploy my war and start tomcat.
I can directly make use of Elastic Beanstalk and deploy my war file there itself but then, there is no windows EC2 available for beanstalk and I don't know how to install firefox there and make my application work.
What is the best way to achieve this and what steps should I follow. I want to install a specific firefox version to be able to make it run with my selenium scripts.
There are two separate things here:
Deployment of web application on AWS cloud
Run the selenium tests against your web application
According to me, you should first think of deploying a web application to AWS cloud. There are many ways by which you can get it deployed to AWS cloud with below services:
Spin a new AWS EC2 instance, install all required software and deploy the web application.
Use AWS elastic beanstalk service with either with tomcat or docker.
Use AWS ECS if you prefer docker
According to me, second option will be quick for you with tomcat environment option. If you select tomcat environment, then your platform will be Tomcat 8 Java 8 on 64bit Amazon Linux.
Now, here comes the second part. You can have below options for your browser environments.
Spin a new separate AWS EC2 instances with correct AMI and install your specific browsers on these instances.
If you prefer SaaS, then you can take a look at browserstack or SauceLabs for remote environment.
If you have CI(jenkins/travis/Circle CI), then make use of that infrastructure to luanch your tests with either option from the above.

Hosting web services project in Amazon

Hi We have built a java based web services project with using jboss server. How do I host this application with Amazon cloud? This web services act as back end for a mobile android app.
I am looking for PaaS option of Jboss server and Postgres database. I could create a postgres database. But could not find Jboss server.
My understanding is in PaaS, Jboss and Postgres should be able to scale up itself as per demand.
Another option provided by Amazon is EC2 as far as I have understood. But if I go with EC2, I will have install and set up jboss and postgres on my own. Then does it scale up by itself as per demand?
Please guide.
If you want to deploy your web application to AWS and ensure its scalability, you have basically two options:
EC2 instance [IaaS] - The disadvantage is, as you mentioned in your question, that you have to configure everything manually. Some external mechanism for scaling has to be used. Amazon provides its AutoScaling service which can be configured to launch new EC2 instances based on utilization or some other metric.
Elastic Beanstalk [PaaS] - This service has the auto-scaling already built in and manages the EC2 instances with your application on its own (it takes care about launching them, deploying the app etc). The disadvantage is that JBoss server is not support at the moment (you would have to switch to Tomcat).
There is a way, how to make JBoss work on Elastic Beanstalk, however. ELB has newly added the support for Docker so if you make your JBoss API run in Docker, you can deploy it to ELB and scale it without much effort and configuration.
As for the database, mentioned in your question, Amazon has plenty of choices, Postgres included, in their RDS service.

Deploying J2EE Web Application on Amazon Web Services

I had been working on amazon web services from couple of days and it is giving me a hard time. All the want it to deploy my J2ee web application on Amazon web Services. I had used the following approach:
1) In had installed the AWS toolkit on eclipse.
2) I had deployed the sample web application of the amazon web services but it is without database. It's a static web page.
But i want to deploy my j2ee web application on aws with apache tomcat 7 as server and mysql database server. Can any one explain me how to deploy the j2ee web app on the aws? I would be highly thankful to you.
I would suggest you try AWS Elastic Beanstalk
If you use tomcat with your Java EE application, it become easier because it already have some templates for that. Creating and Deploying Elastic Beanstalk Applications in Java Using AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
As for mysql, AWS also has the RDS which can do it perfectly. Just modify your database.config in your Java EE application according to this.
Hope it will help.

Calling a Web Service in a Console Application Using Windows Task Scheduler

I need to sync a sql server database with data hosted on another web server. I wrote a C# console Application to call a web service to give me the data hosted on the other web server. I set up a job to run every 10 minutes in task scheduler in "Server Manager" for Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition.
If I run the console application myself then everything works as it should. If I run it in the Task Scheduler using my username it also runs as it should. However if I run it using the NETWORK SERVICE user, which is what I need to do, then the app stops running once I try to contact the web service.
Where do I give NETWORK SERVICE the permissions to call a web service?
It turns out that the their is the local services on my company servers are not allowed to call web services. I need to make a new internal account. Thanks Rene for your help.