Chapter 9. Deployment of ASP.NET Core Application

Once we have completed the development for our ASP.NET core application, we need to deploy the application so that it can be accessed by our users.

In any application, irrespective of whether it is the web, desktop, or mobile application, not all the functionalities have been achieved through code. In fact, you should not try to achieve everything through code.

In this chapter, you are going to learn about the following topics:

• Configuration in the ASP.NET Core application

• Signing up to the Microsoft Azure platform

• Deploying the ASP.NET Core application to the Azure Cloud platform

If you have built a web application using any of the previous versions of ASP.NET MVC, there will be a file by the name of Web.config (an XML file) where you can configure all the dependencies for your application. But in ASP.NET Core, there will be no Web.config file in your solution:

Instead, we have project.json (a JSON file), where we will configure the dependencies...