You're reading from Software Architecture with C# 9 and .NET 5 Architecting software solutions using microservices, DevOps, and design patterns for Azure

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800566040

Length 700 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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.NET

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Design Patterns

Authors (2):

Gabriel Baptista

Francesco Abbruzzese

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture

2. Non-Functional Requirements FREE CHAPTER

3. Documenting Requirements with Azure DevOps

4. Deciding the Best Cloud-Based Solution

5. Applying a Microservice Architecture to Your Enterprise Application

6. Azure Service Fabric

7. Azure Kubernetes Service

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

9. How to Choose Your Data Storage in the Cloud

10. Working with Azure Functions

11. Design Patterns and .NET 5 Implementation

12. Understanding the Different Domains in Software Solutions

13. Implementing Code Reusability in C# 9

14. Applying Service-Oriented Architectures with .NET Core

15. Presenting ASP.NET Core MVC

16. Blazor WebAssembly

17. Best Practices in Coding C# 9

18. Testing Your Code with Unit Test Cases and TDD

19. Using Tools to Write Better Code

20. Understanding DevOps Principles

21. Challenges of Applying CI Scenarios

22. Automation for Functional Tests

23. Answers

24. Another Book You May Enjoy

25. Index

Continuous Integration and GitHub

Since GitHub's acquisition by Microsoft, many features have evolved and new options have been delivered, enhancing the power of this powerful tool. This integration can be checked using the Azure portal, and particularly using GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions is a set of tools that helps with the automation of software development. It enables a fast CI/Continuous Deployment (CD) service on any platform, having YAML files to define its workflows. You can consider GitHub Actions as an alternative to Azure DevOps Pipelines. However, it is worth mentioning that you can automate any GitHub event using GitHub Actions, having thousands of actions available at GitHub Marketplace:

Figure 21.2: GitHub Actions

Creating a workflow to build a .NET Core Web App is quite simple via the GitHub Actions interface. As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are some workflows already created, to help us out. The YAML we have...