How to Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to Google Cloud using Visual Studio 2017?

Deploy an ASP.NET Core App to Google Cloud using Visual Studio 2017

In this post, I will show how to deploy an ASP.NET Core web application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Visual Studio 2017.


To do this we need to divide this into two main sections.

1. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) setup

• Sign Up for Google Cloud
• Google Cloud SDK Installation and Creating the GCP project
• App Engine Initialization
• Enable Billing
• Google Cloud Tools for Visual Studio Installation

2. Creating an ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio 2017 and Linking to the GCP Project

• Creating an ASP.NET Core Project in Visual Studio 2017
• Google Cloud Tools for Visual Studio Installation
• Publishing to Google Cloud