You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 10 and .NET 6 – Third Edition Develop software solutions using microservices, DevOps, EF Core, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235257

Length 714 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Francesco Abbruzzese

Gabriel Baptista

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Non-Functional Requirements

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding on the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Kubernetes Service

7. Interacting with Data in C# – Entity Framework Core

8. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

9. Working with Azure Functions

10. Design Patterns and .NET 6 Implementation

11. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

12. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 10

13. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET

14. Implementing Microservices with .NET

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Implementing Frontend Microservices with ASP.NET Core

17. Blazor WebAssembly

18. Native versus Web Clients

19. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

20. Best Practices in Coding C# 10

21. Understanding DevOps Principles

22. Challenges of Applying CI & CD Scenarios

23. Testing Your Enterprise Application

24. Answers

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

26. Index

Understanding CI/CD

As soon as you start working with a platform such as Azure DevOps, enabling CI/CD will be easy when it comes to clicking on the options for doing so, as we saw in Chapter 21, Understanding DevOps Principles. So, technology is not the Achilles’ heel for implementing this process.

The following screenshot shows an example of how easy it is to turn on CI/CD using Azure DevOps. By clicking in the build pipeline and editing it, you will be able to set a trigger that enables CI/CD after some clicks:

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Figure 22.1: Enabling CI trigger

The truth is that CI/CD will help you solve some problems. For instance, it will force you to test your code, since you will need to commit the changes faster, so other developers can make use of the code you are programming.

On the other hand, you will not do CI/CD just by enabling a CI build in Azure DevOps. For sure, you will turn on the possibility of starting a build as soon as you get a commit done and the...