Summary

In this chapter, you saw how to get started with the three most popular operating systems that .NET Core 2 supports. You learned about the selection of tools available on each platform and the different ways of using ASP.NET Core 2.

You also discovered the benefits of containers and appreciated how they can be used. You're encouraged to take the examples from this chapter, mix them up, and extend them to the environments that you require. There is a lot of cross-over between platforms and tooling today, so many of these lessons are transferable.

We hope that you will be inspired to try something new by seeing what alternatives are available. Simply spin up a new VM (perhaps in the cloud) and get hacking away!

In the next chapter, we will get into the main focus of this book: performance. We will build on what you have just learned about tooling and show you how to measure your software to see whether it's slow. You will see how to identify what parts of the code need improvement, if indeed it does perform poorly.