That's it, we are almost at the end of the book, which means that we have nearly finished the entire application development life cycle, and, thus, customers will be able to use your applications soon! Don't be sad; instead, be proud, because after reading and understanding this penultimate chapter of the book, you will have acquired strong skills to create and deploy your own mind-blowing applications with strong technical foundations!
Let's recap, from the beginning of the book until now: you have seen how to set up a development environment, how to use the various features of ASP.NET Core 2.0 to develop modern web applications, how to connect them to a database via Entity Framework Core, and, finally, in the last chapter, how to secure them against any malicious cyber criminals.
Now, we need to talk about the last step in the cycle, which consists of hosting and deploying your applications once they are production ready.
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