In this chapter, we talked about the various options you have when it comes to hosting and deploying your ASP.NET Core 3 web applications. You have learned what hosting is, and how to choose the appropriate solutions for a given use case. This will allow you to make better decisions for your own applications.

You have seen how to sign up for an AWS account, how to provision the technical environment, and how to deploy ASP.NET Core 3 web applications. Furthermore, you have seen how to sign up for a Microsoft Azure account, how to provision the technical environment, and how to deploy ASP.NET Core 3 web applications using this powerful public cloud computing platform.

We then talked about Docker and the various deployment choices you have when you use this modern, increasingly adopted, and impactful technology. You are well prepared for the future, since Docker may well completely change our way of thinking concerning deploying and managing applications.

You have gained very important skills any serious developer should have, which include hosting your web applications, deploying to Docker containers, and deploying to AWS or Microsoft Azure; and, last but not least, you have gained skills required in continuous deployment.

In the next chapter, we will explain how to manage and supervise deployed web applications efficiently, which is very important for a DevOps approach.