Entity Framework Core 2.1 has a nice little feature for seed data. Previously, seeding data quite often involved a series of checks and potential for a script to exist that, if run on the wrong data, would repeatedly re-generate the same seed data.

In 2.1, you can simply override the OnModelCreating function of the data context, like so:

public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext
{
    public ApplicationDbContext(DbContextOptions<ApplicationDbContext> options)
        : base(options)
    {
    }
 
    public DbSet<ResourceType> ResourceType { get; set; }
 
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
 
        modelBuilder.Entity<ResourceType>().HasData(new Data.ResourceType()
        {
            Id = 1,
            Name = "Web Site"                
        });
    }

And the framework will calculate whether or not this needs to run to put the data into the state that you’ve requested.

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/data-seeding