In a corporate environment, the build server you have access to, and might even be responsible for, is almost usually ‘offline’ - which is to say that for annoyingly sensible security reasons, it is not reachable by the outside internet, and it does not have access to the outside internet.
Building dotnet 8 applications in such an environment is fairly straightforward, but does mean that you need to run dotnet restore
and dotnet build
separately.
You must configure a package source which is reachable internally, either on a drive, network share or internal feed - as long as it is accessible via a URI.
The source can be configured in a Nuget.config
, or can be passed by the --source
option.
Typically, I’ve been running:
dotnet restore --nologo --source <the-source-uri>
As we have a single source where we keep all packages. If we had multiple source locations, I would use the Nuget.confg
option and specify the sources in there.
The build step becomes:
dotnet build --no-restore --nologo --configuration Release
We make sure to disable the restore on the build, because we’ve already done it.
Nice and easy.