Publishing ASP.Net Core app to Azure silently fails in command line - asp.net

Question

I'm trying to publish a dotnet core app to Azure. I've created a publish profile and using visual studio it all works fine. But since I'd like to setup continuous deployment I need to run the deployment using command line.
The official documentation was pretty helpful in identifying that the [ProfileName].ps1 is the best plan of attack.
However it gives no clues on how to use it.
First I ran it without parameters and got this error:
Production-publish.ps1 : The term 'Production-publish.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script
file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct
and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Production-publish.ps1
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Production-publish.ps1:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Next I added the needed parameters:
.\Production-publish -packOutput 'C:\code\my-dotnetcore-proj\publish' -pubProfilePath 'Production.pubxml'
Which ran without error but didn't do ANYTHING!
How can I make the Azure depoyment via Powershell work?

Answer 1

After debugging through the publish-module.psm1 to figure out why nothing was getting deployed I noticed that the command is required to supply more parameters. This is how:
.\Production-publish -packOutput 'C:\code\my-dotnetcore-proj\publish' -pubProfilePath 'Production.pubxml' -publishProperties #{
'username' = '%PublishProfile.Username%'
'Password' = '%PublishProfile.Password%'
'AllowUntrustedCertificate' = false
'AuthType' = 'Basic'}
You obviously have to replace %PublishProfile.Username% and %PublishProfile.Password% and possibly modify Production-publish and Production.pubxml
Note that only the Password parameter is required (considering that the UserName is provided in your .pubxml file)
I actually ended up writing blog article on how to compile and deploy asp.net core sites with TeamCity:
How to deploy ASP.NET Core sites using Teamcity to Azure/IIS … or just command line