Course update
Welcome
What will you learn in this course?
Who is the course for and prerequisites
Getting Started: Aspire
Get started with Aspire, the future of local development
About This Course
Aspire is Microsoft's vision for how every developer will develop systems. It is a cloud-ready stack for production-ready, distributed applications, 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, 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 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
5h 11m 14 sections
The Aspire CLI
Tooling across IDEs and editors
The Aspire Dashboard
So why use Aspire?
Introducing the podcast listing webapp
Adding the AppHost project
Adding the ServiceDefaults project
Aspirifying an application with the Aspire CLI
What are integrations?
Adding the database
Seeding the database
Exploring some other integrations
How does Service Discovery work?
Aspire networking
Parameters: config, secrets, and connection strings
App host and dashboard configuration options
Adding a rating service to our podcast app
What is OpenTelemetry?
Structured Logs
Metrics
Traces and Spans
Health Checks
Eventing in Aspire
Testing in Aspire
Introduction to deployment in Aspire
Publishing and deploying with the Aspire CLI (Docker Compose example)
Deploying to Kubernetes
Deploying to Azure App Service
Deploying to Azure Container Apps
More on the Aspire deployment pipeline
Introduction to AI in Aspire
Using coding agents with the Aspire CLI and MCP Server
The Aspire GenAI Visualizer
The integrated GitHub Copilot UI
Introduction
A TypeScript AppHost
Creating and running non-dotnet apps
Persist Aspire data using volumes or bind mounts
Custom Resource Commands
Running non .NET apps
Running images and custom Dockerfiles
Custom Resource URLs
Conclusion
Meet Your Instructor
Dan Clarke
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