What is .NET Aspire? Why do you NEED it in every .NET app? How to get started in minutes!

.NET Aspire is an opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications, and it is AWESOME! You may have seen a lot of demos about what .NET Aspire is and how to get started with the amazing templates, but let's look at how to add .NET Aspire to an existing .NET API back-end, Blazor front-end, and then add in Redis Cache, Garnet, Open Telemetry, and Postgres!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro & project walkthrough
02:15 - Add .NET Aspire Orchestration to .NET API
05:25 - Exploring Dashboard and Telemetry
06:58 - Add .NET Aspire to Blazor app and enable Service Discovery
12:45 - Adding Redis Cache to .NET Aspire
16:00 - Adding PostgresSQL and PgAdmin
18:30 - Adding Garnet to existing Redis Client
20:30 - Wrap-up

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[benjsoft]

Thanks James, your demo makes .NET Aspire interesting and easy to understand :D

[Mr]

This is crazy simple. Thanks for this video, as always a fantastic tutorial.

[benjsoft]

Hope next time you can demo how to add .NET MAUI application in .NET Aspire

[kabal]

That's amazing. Even just for local development as a first step for adoption 👍

[danielbub]

Great video!
Can you make a video on how to deploy it?
Afaik, the aspire projet reference the hardcoded .csproj file

[alkishadjinicolaou]

As always you have been excellent James! Thanks!

[shakes]

A similar question I have with Aspire as I did with Dapr. Every example shows things in the same solution. Our services and front ends are all in different solutions and deployed separately. Are there any good resources for this?

[komilp]

Thank for this video. I am curious to understand how Aspire would work with micro-services that are in different solutions? To use Aspire, do all the related apps have to be under the same solution?

[LosWochos]

That looks awesome. I would like to see more, eg using a reverse proxy like Nginx, configuring SSL with letsencrypt and deploying all that to a virtual maschine.

[onurbarlik]

thanks for this detailed informative video. I need more samples about deploying to kubernetes also, can you describe this too? There is not enough information about this.

[sacalbal]

Great video.
A question : In your example, does this mean you can use a postgre database from your backend after having configured .net aspire ? Then, how to use it from your backend ?

[paragraut]

Hey James, nice work. Would be great if you show the deployment process using .Net Aspire.

[fps]

what kind of visual studio is that ?? Looks cool i have always hated the square pointy tabs in the editor. How to get it ?

[davidmasterson]

Nice video, but the "Add Aspire to any App" title seems odd when maui is not supported. Any chance of you doing a video on where we are with maui aspire support. I appreciate that this is a "Cloud First" technology but 95% plus maui apps need a back end and I can see how this would be very useful.

[stevehiggin]

Watching a video with Fowler and Edwards they say Aspire is for the local development environment only and you dont deploy anything. But you modified your two existing projects with AddServiceDefaults so now you do need to deploy the project that provides that into say production and what happens if all the ServiceDefaults are not valid for production?

[jportugal]

How do you publish to use a custom azure vnet?!

[nerdydragon]

Is it possible to use this with Blazor WASM?

[king-cog]

I don't see where you added a js app

[allied-data]

It's all very cool. But the missing piece is the deployment to the Cloud Platform, which was the last sentence in your presentation. I realize it is a preview, but frankly, it will remain a preview until that part is demonstrable.
I am looking forward to your future video covering that.

[tsooooooo]

They should have pushed Orleans more, it's really underrated