Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to:

• Configure dependency services
• Configure the HTTP pipeline
• Configure options and override them in deployments
• Containerize ASP.NET Core projects ready for deployments anywhere
• Use Aspire to orchestrate local development

In the next five chapters, you will learn how to build and test web services. Unlike a website that will be used by a human visitor and therefore has a user interface, web services are called by code, so they have different requirements. For example, although the most common web service technologies use controllers and models, they do not need views.

Three of the five chapters review different technologies for building web services and two chapters cover how to build clients to web services and test and debug them:

• Chapter 9 covers ASP.NET Core Web API using controllers: This provides maximum flexibility and control, but it requires the most developer effort.
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