What Is .NET Aspire and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?

Heard about .NET Aspire but have no clue what it is, and what it can do for you? Let me show you exactly what you have been missing out on! Don’t let all the buzzwords scare you. It’s a lot easier than it may sound. Throughout this video we will explore the different parts of what makes .NET Aspire. How do you make it easier for a web frontend to discover an API? How do you easily add a Redis cache to an application, or any arbitrary docker container for that matter? No matter if you can figure out how to get a complex solution running locally, making this process easier will save both time and money. .NET Aspire is really just a tool to make development easier. By providing a set of opinionated decisions, to introduce open telemetry, service discovery, http client configurations, and much more. All of this to make it a lot easier to run complex, and easy, solutions. Locally, or in the cloud! At the end of this video, we will take it one step further from local development to get the entire stack published to the cloud, without a lot of work at all! Without further ado, let’s learn about .NET Aspire! Follow me on X: @fekberg Check out my courses on Pluralsight: https://pluralsight.pxf.io/d1MRK DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the links, I may receive a small commission. 00:00: Introduction 01:01: Aspire Starter App 02:20: Introducing the applications 04:19: Service Defaults 05:40: App Host 06:19: The Dashboard 08:21: Output, Metrics and Traces 09:24: Accessing the API 10:42: Docker Containers 11:20: Redis 12:25: Persistent containers 13:26: Redis as a Distributed Cache 15:40: Hybrid Cache 19:16: Azure Setup 20:00: Prepare for deployment 21:30: Deploy to Azure 22:26: Aspire Dashboard in Azure 23:12: Resources in Azure 24:20: Custom Commands