.Net Aspire

.NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications. .NET Aspire is delivered through a collection of NuGet packages that handle specific cloud-native concerns. Cloud-native apps often consist of small, interconnected pieces or microservices rather than a single, monolithic code base. Cloud-native apps generally consume a large number of services, such as databases, messaging, and caching. Not that this is still a Preview version, the official release is planned for the first half of 2024.

Aspire is designed to help you with:

· Orchestration
Orchestration refers to the coordination and management of various elements within a cloud-native application. .NET Aspire streamlines the configuration and interconnection of different parts of your cloud-native app. It provides useful abstractions for managing service discovery, environment variables, and container configurations without having to handle low level implementation details.

· Components
.NET Aspire components are NuGet packages designed to simplify connections to popular services and platforms, such as Redis or PostgreSQL. .NET Aspire components handle many cloud-native concerns for you through standardized configuration patterns, such as adding health checks and telemetry.

· Tooling
.NET Aspire comes with project templates and tooling experiences for Visual Studio and the dotnet CLI help you create and interact with .NET Aspire apps

To work with .NET Aspire, you’ll need the following installed locally:

· .NET 8.0

· .NET Aspire workload

· Docker Desktop

· Visual Studio 2022 Preview version 17.9 or higher