Deploying to AWS Lambda from Visual Studio Team Services, Dotnet Lamba Not Found

Question

I have created a .Net Core 2.0 Web API and am trying to deploy it using Visual Studio Team Services and the AWS Lambda .Net Tools, according to this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/working-with-lambda-functions-and-visual-studio-team-services/.

But when the task runs in VSTS it throws this error:

No executable found matching command "dotnet-lambda"

Here is the full log of the task:

2018-01-27T02:55:21.9538582Z ##[section]Starting: Deploy to Lambda:  
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9749412Z ==============================================================================
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9749717Z Task         : AWS Lambda .NET Core Deployment
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9749955Z Description  : Build and deploy a Serverless .NET Core application or AWS Lambda function
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9750152Z Version      : 1.0.17
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9750334Z Author       : Amazon Web Services
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9750571Z Help         : Please refer to [AWS Lambda Developer Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/) for more information on working with AWS Lambda.
2018-01-27T02:55:21.9750859Z ==============================================================================
2018-01-27T02:55:23.4482254Z d4194695-5ae1-4063-ab6c-c39aa4079814 exists true
2018-01-27T02:55:23.4524112Z Deploying Lambda project at d:\a\1\s
2018-01-27T02:55:23.4545880Z Beginning dotnet restore
2018-01-27T02:55:23.4729777Z Path to tool: C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe
2018-01-27T02:55:23.4760281Z [command]"C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe" restore
2018-01-27T02:55:25.2373341Z   Restoring packages for d:\a\1\s\SimOpSolutions.API\SimOpSolutions.API.csproj...
2018-01-27T02:55:25.2374456Z   Restoring packages for d:\a\1\s\SimOpSolutions.Domain\SimOpSolutions.Domain.csproj...
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2018-01-27T02:57:01.1940712Z d:\a\1\s\SimOpSolutions.API\SimOpSolutions.API.csproj : warning NU1603: RestSharp.NetCore 105.2.3 depends on System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters (>= 4.0.0-rc4-24217-03) but System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters 4.0.0-rc4-24217-03 was not found. An approximate best match of System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters 4.3.0-preview1-24530-04 was resolved. [d:\a\1\s\SimOpSolutions.sln]
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2018-01-27T02:59:56.9548214Z Beginning Serverless Deployment
2018-01-27T02:59:56.9549299Z Path to tool: C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe
2018-01-27T02:59:56.9552784Z [command]"C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe" lambda deploy-serverless --disable-interactive true --region us-east-1
2018-01-27T02:59:57.1481754Z No executable found matching command "dotnet-lambda"
2018-01-27T02:59:57.2033504Z ##[error]Error: C:\Program Files\dotnet\dotnet.exe failed with return code: 1
2018-01-27T02:59:57.2414775Z ##[section]Finishing: Deploy to Lambda:  

Answer 1

I had to add a DotNetCliToolReference to the lambda tools in my .csproj file of the lambda project:

<ItemGroup>
  <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Tools" Version="2.2.0" />
</ItemGroup>

Answer 2

I got similar issue, and below is how I solve it

install Amazon.Lambda.Tools to the gloable, you can build it anywhere

dotnet tool install --global Amazon.Lambda.Tools --version 3.1.1

update to latest version

dotnet tool update --global Amazon.Lambda.Tools

then you can build in by cmd line in the project folder

dotnet-lambda package