Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition

11 SportsStore: Security and deployment

This chapter covers

• Authenticating users with ASP.NET Core Identity
• Authorizing user access to ASP.NET Core resources
• Preparing and publishing an application
• Creating a Docker container image for the SportsStore application

Authentication and authorization are provided by the ASP.NET Core Identity system, which integrates neatly into the ASP.NET Core platform and the individual application frameworks. In the sections that follow, I will create a basic security setup that allows one user, called Admin, to authenticate and access the administration features in the application. ASP.NET Core Identity provides many more features for authenticating users and authorizing access to application features and data, ...