.NET Aspire Blog Posts
Modeling Your Environment with Aspire
When I talk about modeling in Aspire, I’m talking about describing your application and its environment in a way that a tool can understand — not just a human.
The Aspire Compiler
At the heart of Aspire is a resource model. It defines the shape of your application — its services, dependencies, configuration, and how everything connects. But this model doesn’t just describe intent...
Aspire: A Platform for Reusable Infrastructure
In software engineering, we know how to build reusable systems.
Making Software Like LEGO: How Aspire Brings the Pieces Together
Recently Andrej Karpathy posted about the reality of building web apps in 2025. His point was simple: it’s not really about writing code…
How .NET Aspire Simplifies Service Discovery
.NET Aspire revolutionizes distributed application development by simplifying service discovery through configuration-based approaches that eliminate the complexity of service-to-service communication.
.NET Aspire - Microsoft's Attempt at Infrastructure as Code
.NET Aspire is a new set of tools, templates, and packages from Microsoft designed to make building cloud-native applications with .NET easier and more efficient. It helps developers create applications that are resilient, observable, and ready for production.
Building Microservices Using .NET Aspire
This article explores Microservices and how to implement them using .NET Aspire.
Xbox + .NET Aspire: Transforming Local Development Practices - .NET Blog
Learn how the Xbox services team leveraged .NET Aspire to boost their team's productivity.
.NET Aspire: Bridging the Gap Between Application and Infrastructure
.NET Aspire represents a significant shift towards application-centric infrastructure management. While platform-level IaC tools will continue to play a vital role in managing the broader infrastructure foundation, Aspire empowers developers to take greater control over their application’s runtime environment.
.NET Rocks! .NET Aspire 9.1 with Rob Richardson
Carl and Richard talk to Rob Richardson about his experiences with .NET Aspire to help build great .NET cloud apps. Rob talks about all the goodness that comes out of the box with Aspire, including OpenTelemetry, containerization, good security practices, and the excellent dashboard. The discussion turns to the challenges of evolving .NET to be better in the cloud, retrofitting existing applications with Aspire, and all the container choices you have in front of you with these tools.
