You're reading from ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners Kick-start your ASP.NET web development journey with the help of step-by-step tutorials and examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800567184

Length 602 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET Core

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Authors (5):

Jeffrey Chilberto

Ed Price

Andreas Helland

Vincent Maverick Durano

Ed Price

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Crawling

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET Core 5 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Cross-Platform Setup

4. Chapter 3: Dependency Injection

5. Chapter 4: Razor View Engine

6. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Blazor

7. Section 2 – Walking

8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Blazor Web Framework

9. Chapter 7: APIs and Data Access

10. Chapter 8: Working with Identity in ASP.NET

11. Chapter 9: Getting Started with Containers

12. Section 3 – Running

13. Chapter 10: Deploying to AWS and Azure

14. Chapter 11: Browser and Visual Studio Debugging

15. Chapter 12: Integrating with CI/CD

16. Chapter 13: Developing Cloud-Native Apps

17. Assessments

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

An overview of CI/CD

CI and CD are modern approaches to software delivery, where automation is used to improve quality and reduce delay. In this section, we will define CI/CD and explore the issues addressed by this best practice.

First, let's provide some background.

Understanding why CI/CD

In order to appreciate CI/CD, let's describe a typical development process Figure 12.1 shows the development process:

Figure 12.1 – Development process

In the previous diagram, we are showing how we might have a team of developers all developing software on their own devices. The developer changes are then promoted to a systems integration (SIT) environment for initial testing. Once these have been verified, the changes then progress to a user acceptance testing (UAT) environment. Again, after a round of testing, these changes are progressed into production (PROD) with a reasonable amount of confidence.

At some point, the team wants its latest...