A .NET Core deployment package (.zip file archive) contains your function's compiled assembly along with all of its assembly dependencies. The package also contains a proj.deps.json file. This signals to the .NET Core runtime all of your function's dependencies and a proj.runtimeconfig.json file, which is used to configure the runtime. The .NET command line interface (CLI) publish command can create a folder with all of these files. By default, the proj.runtimeconfig.json is not included because a Lambda project is typically configured to be a class library. To force the proj.runtimeconfig.json to be written as part of the publish process, pass in the command line argument /p:GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles=true to the publish command.
Although it is possible to create the deployment package with the dotnet publish command, we recommend that you create the deployment package with either the .NET Core CLI or the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. These are tools optimized specifically for Lambda to ensure that the lambda-project.runtimeconfig.json file exists and optimizes the package bundle, including the removal of any non-Linux-based dependencies.
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