[UDM] ASP.NET Core Environments & Deployment Azure DevOps CI/CD Course (Jul 2024) + Resources

Learning ASP.NET Core Environments
The ASP.NET Core Environments & Deployment Azure DevOps CI/CD Course begins with a lesson on how to work with multiple environments within ASP.NET Core, like Development, Staging, and Production. You will also get to know how to set up environment-specific variables and how to integrate easily the variable injection during run time. Using concrete examples, you will configure your .NET Core MVC app to be dynamic by reacting to the environment it is deployed in, which is a good basis upon which you can create scalable and maintainable apps.

Integration with the database & Azure SQL deployment
Next, you will get practical exposure to connecting your application to a local SQL Server, and then you will move the same setup to Azure SQL Database. You will use Entity Framework Core and Visual Studio tools to manage data modeling, migration, and deployments. The skills will make sure that your application is viable on production cloud infrastructure with correct data flow and persistence.

Deploying to Azure with and without CI/CD
When your environment and database are in place, you will learn about two deployment options of your ASP.NET Core app on the Azure App Service. Since the course is designed to walk you through the manual creation of cloud resources using the Azure portal, after that, it switches to the process of having a fully automated CI/CD pipeline established using Azure DevOps. You will also know how to manipulate secrets, as well as environment variables and deployment triggers- which makes your release cycles secure and time-efficient.

Developing End-to-End CI/CD Pipeline using Azure DevOps
The last module of the ASP.NET Core Environments & Deployment Azure DevOps CI/CD Course will round everything up by creating a multi-stage deployment pipeline that is built intentionally based on development, staging, and production. You will integrate the best practices, including the presence of pull requests, branch policies, and automatic environment switching. These pipelines duplicate the workflows found in an enterprise, so you will feel ready to take a spot in an actual DevOps pipeline and cloud development projects.