ASP.NET 8 Best Practices

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CI/CD – Building Quality Software Automatically

In my career, someone once said to me, “CI/CD is dead, long live CI/CD.” Of course, this phrase doesn’t mean it’s completely dead. It simply means CI/CD is now becoming the standard for software development, a common practice developers should adopt and learn during a software development life cycle. It is now considered part of your development process as opposed to being a shiny, new process.

In this chapter, we’ll review what Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) means and how to prepare your code for a pipeline. Once we’ve covered the necessary changes to include in your code, we’ll discuss what a common pipeline looks like for building software. Once we understand the pipeline ...