Where should I put Database.EnsureCreated?

Question

I have an Entity Framework Core + ASP.NET Core application and when my application starts up I want to ensure that the database is created, and eventually (once I have migra

Answer 1

I wonder why you would run to run EnsureCreated as part of your service anyway. Do you really want your webserver to create or update the database schema? Why would the webserver be up and serving request if the database is not up to date?

Do you really trust your migrations so much that they don't ruin data when executed, that you don't want to test the data after running them?

In addition, this will require you to give the webserver database user permissions to change the database schema. This is a vulnerability in itself - someone taking over your webserver will be able to modify your database schema.

I suggest you create the database and apply migrations in a small utility you run yourself, not as part of your web application.