Getting Started: .NET Aspire

Get started with .NET Aspire, the future of .NET development

About This Course

.NET Aspire is Microsoft's vision for how every .NET developer will develop systems. It is a cloud-ready stack for production-ready, distributed applications using .NET, and it makes it extremely easy to develop, run, and test your systems locally. With unmatched dev-time orchestration, integrations with third-party services, and excellent tooling, .NET Aspire aims to make working with the cloud and technologies like Docker and Kubernetes easier than ever. In this course, Dan Clarke will assume you have no knowledge of what .NET Aspire is and get you started with everything there is to learn about the stack and what it can do. It's quickly becoming a job requirement, so check out this course and get ahead of the curve.

Course Curriculum

4h 20m 12 sections

Welcome

03:20 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:57 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

01:29 Free preview

Tooling across IDEs and editors

13:47

The Aspire CLI

02:15

The Aspire Dashboard

08:53

So why use Aspire?

05:32

Introducing the podcast listing webapp

07:06

Adding the AppHost project

09:30

Adding the ServiceDefaults project

09:05

What are integrations?

02:49

Adding the database

09:29

Seeding the database

03:37

Exploring some other integrations

03:05

How does Service Discovery work?

07:33

Aspire networking

05:44

Parameters: config, secrets, and connection strings

07:36

App host and dashboard configuration options

01:38

Adding a rating service to our podcast app

04:02

What is OpenTelemetry?

02:38

Structured Logs

05:00

Metrics

04:24

Traces and Spans

21:32

Health Checks

08:30

Eventing in Aspire

08:19

Testing in Aspire

07:50

Introduction

01:09

The manifest file

05:04

Publishers (and a docker-compose demo)

04:00

Deploying Azure with azd

11:53

Understanding Run vs Publish modes

11:10

Deploying Kubernetes applications (new publisher version)

15:38

Deploying Kubernetes applications (Aspir8)

05:33

Closing thoughts on deploying with Aspire

00:56

Persist Aspire data using volumes or bind mounts

08:33

Custom Resource Commands

02:28

Running non .NET apps

11:20

Running images and custom Dockerfiles

10:06

Custom Resource URLs

03:55

Conclusion

00:53

Meet Your Instructor

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke

Dan Clarke is an independent software developer and consultant, specialising in .NET, Azure, Docker, and Kubernetes. He's a Microsoft MVP; speaker; hosts The Unhandled Exception podcast; runs the .NET Oxford user-group; and also has a YouTube channel covering various programming topics.

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