.NET Aspire Tutorials

.NET Aspire development on any OS with the Visual Studio family

Explore the core features of .NET Aspire and how it enhances the developer experience for building cloud-native applications. This session will demonstrate building .NET Aspire apps with Visual Studio and VS Code, so you can choose the best tool for your workflow. We'll then cover Azure Developer CLI (AZD) integration and the "azd up" experience, showcasing how .NET Aspire and AZD work together to seamlessly move your locally-running app to the cloud!

Demystify cloud-native development with .NET Aspire

Explore the groundbreaking .NET Aspire technology stack designed for cloud-native development. We'll explore the Orchestration, Components, Tooling and more. We'll even show you how to integrate the Azure Open AI component to add intelligent functionality to your distributed services.

How to deploy .NET Aspire applications?

You can deploy .NET Aspire applications everywhere that you can deploy a .NET application. For Kubernetes, the open source tool Aspir8 enables Kubernetes manifest generation right from your Aspire App Host project! .NET Aspire is completely integrated with the Azure Developer CLI (azd) for quick and efficient deployment to Azure Container apps. Additionally, right-click publish capability is available directly in Visual Studio for multi-node microservice projects.

What is .NET Aspire telemetry?

.NET Aspire uses Telemetry data to determine how a service is operating. This includes the number of requests it is handling, how long each request takes, and how many errors have occurred. Telemetry in .NET Aspire can take three forms: logs, traces, and metrics. Overall, telemetry helps achieve the primary goal of .NET Aspire, which is to ensure that apps are straightforward to debug and diagnose.

What are .NET Aspire service defaults?

.NET Aspire service defaults consist of helping methods and tools to manage the configurations for OpenTelemetry, health checks, environment variables, and more. These tools ensure your cloud-native application works across different environments reliably and securely.

What is .NET Aspire service discovery?

.NET Aspire service discovery helps applications to find each other. Distributed applications consist of multiple services that talk to each other over the network.

What is the .NET Aspire Dashboard?

The .NET Aspire Dashboard is a comprehensive tool for application diagnostics and monitoring. The dashboard allows you to closely track various aspects of your app, including logs, traces, and environment configurations, in real-time.

What is Dev Time Orchestration in .NET Aspire?

.NET Aspire provides APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for creating distributed applications made up of multiple resources. It simplifies management by abstracting service discovery, environment variables, and container configurations, ensuring consistent setups across apps.

What is .NET Aspire?

.NET Aspire is designed to easily build observable and reliable cloud-native applications while improving productivity for developers building those applications at a rapid pace. .NET Aspire does this in five main areas: the .NET Aspire Dashboard, application orchestration, components, service discovery, and deployment. Each of these pieces can be adopted individually into an existing application or adopted all together if you are starting a new project.

Aspir8: Aspire to Deployments

Aspir8 - a tool to generate deployment yaml for Kubernetes from a .NET Aspire AppHost project.