I have used the .net core console application template a couple of times to create production apps. It requires us to wire up configuration, logging, Di and a bunch of other features manually.

yes, this is ironical. I was away and thanks for the HN hug of death my blog went down :-). My blog provider throttled it down severely and I was able to restore it from backups just now. I blog occasionally to put down notes on what ever I am working on or thinking through, in the hope that maybe it would help some one or myself in the future. Apologies if I wasted your time.