This 15-minute tutorial shows you how to create a basic .NET Core web application that retrieves data from the Oracle database with Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) Core.  

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup and install ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux. I did it for the first time in 15 minutes with no previous experience with .NET Core on Linux. I did it the second time, in production, in 5 minutes by following these instructions.

In this article, I show you how to install the .NET Core runtime on CentOS, how to get a sample ASP.NET Core project running on Kestrel as a service for reliability, and how to configure both the code and the firewall to enable remote access. Finally, I discuss what I would do differently for actual production usage. 

Authentication options in ASP.NET 5 and ASP.NET Core 

The History of ASP.NET – Part III (Covers ASP.NET Core) 

ASP.NET - Writing Clean Code in ASP.NET Core with Dependency Injection 

Creating Tag Helpers in ASP.NET MVC 6 / ASP.NET Core 1.0  

ASP.NET Core 1.0: The Technology Formerly Known as ASP.NET 5