Linux deployment

Throughout this section, we’ll learn how to deploy our WorldCities web application on a Linux CentOS 8 server hosted on MS Azure.

More precisely, here’s what we’re going to do:

• Create a new VM on MS Azure using the CentOS-based 8.2 template
• Configure the VM to accept inbound calls to TCP ports 22 (for SSH), 80 (for HTTP), and 443 (for HTTPS), as well as setting up the Nginx + Kestrel edge-origin hosting model
• Publish the WorldCities app to the web server we’ve just set up
• Test the WorldCities app from a remote client

Let’s get to work!

It’s worth noting that the CentOS-based template that we’re going to use in this deployment sample can be easily replaced—with minor variations—with any other Linux VM template available on MS Azure: as a matter of fact, the ASP.NET Core Linux runtime works well with most Debian-based and RPM-based Linux distributions...