Automate Microsoft web application deployments with GitHub Actions and Terraform

This blog post demonstrates how to automate the deployment of a sample ASP.NET Core web application using GitHub Actions and Terraform. It covers four main stages:

Specifically, the article covers:

• Prerequisites for setting up the necessary tools and accounts
• Establishing cross-account IAM roles for Terraform deployment across multiple AWS accounts
• Building the pipeline using Terraform to set up the AWS and GitHub resources, including configuring GitHub environments, variables, secrets, and workflows
• Deploying the sample ASP.NET Core web application workload to development, test, and production environments using the GitHub Actions workflows
• Cleaning up the deployed resources after evaluation