Chapter_8_Deployment_Basic.md

8. Deployment Basics

IIS

IIS is request processing architecture which include

• Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), which enables sites to use protocols other than HTTP and HTTPS
• A web server engine that can be customiezed by adding or removing modules
• Integrated request processing pipelines

Deploying Web Application

Hosting .NET Core application requires following steps:

• publish an app to a folder on the hosting server (dotnet publish CLI tool can be used)
• Set up a process manager (IIS, nginx, Apache etc.) that starts the app when requests arrive and restarts the app after if crashes or the server reboots.
• Set up a reverse proxy that forwards requests to the app.

References:

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/introduction-to-iis/introduction-to-iis-architecture
2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/?tabs=aspnetcore2x