Referencing external Docker containers in .NET Aspire using the new custom resources API
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For this article, we will add to the dashboard a container that is not controlled by .NET Aspire. One can imagine a development team that has not yet migrated their docker-compose.yml but would still like to see the containers and their logs appear in the .NET Aspire dashboard.
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