Publishing our ASP.NET Core backend to Azure

In this section, we are going to deploy our database and backend API to Azure using Visual Studio. We are going to deploy to a production environment first and then a staging environment.

Publishing to production

Let's carry out the following steps to deploy our backend to production:

1. In Solution Explorer, right-click on the QandA project and select Publish....
2. The Publish screen opens. Select the Publish section and then click the Start button:

3. We are then prompted to choose a publish target. Choose Create New and click the Create Profile button:

4. The next step is to specify our Microsoft account and name the production app service. Note down the name you choose because...