Migrations

The purpose of generating Entity Framework migrations is to apply database schema changes consistently across Staging, UAT and Production environments. The proposed method would involve developers generating migration a migration script whenever changes are made to the Entity Framework model in their projects. The DevOps team would apply that migration script to update the Azure environments. The services and applications being developed themselves should not have permissions to modify the environment.

Installing Entity command line The .NET Entity Framework command line tools can be installed globally in PowerShell, or just for a specific project. dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef After installation, it might be a good idea to update the tools: dotnet tool update --global dotnet-ef Add the Entity Framework Packages to a Project In order to use the Entity Framework command line tools for a .NET Core project, it’s necessary to install the Design package.