Название: .NET Aspire Made Easy (MEAP 9)
Автор: Fiodar Sazanavets
Издательство: Manning Publications
Год: 2026
Страниц: 304
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 18.7 MB

Write distributed apps naturally on your local machine using .NET Aspire!

.NET Aspire radically simplifies the process of building distributed applications! With this powerful tool, you can design, code, and run distributed systems on your local dev machine, even replicating cloud services such as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Storage. Aspire includes the templates and packages you need to create a complete distributed environment on your local machine, including Kubernetes orchestration, observability, and database integration, all from your familiar Visual Studio IDE.

Traditionally, building distributed applications was very hard. Developers had to launch different processes, emulate various services, and disable some parts of the application to make it even possible to run on a development machine. Aspire changed all of it. The whole distributed application can now be launched locally in a single process, and all of its services can be easily debugged. Just like Docker before it, Aspire enabled applications to run in a development environment the same way they can be run in production.

The goal of this book is to teach you how .NET Aspire works and how you can use it for building and deploying distributed applications of any complexity level. While it doesn't cover all possible things you can do with Aspire (as there are way too many of these things to cover in a single book), it does explain all of the fundamental principles that will allow you to become a competent user.

The Chapter 1 will provide a high-level overview of what .NET Aspire is. If you are new to the domain of distributed applications that .NET Aspire operates in, you will also learn, at a high level, how distributed applications operate in general.

The current major version of Aspire is 13, which is expected to remain an evergreen version. It was chosen purely for its symbolic meaning, as the number is higher than 9, the previous version, but isn’t an increment of 9, symbolising a breakaway from sequential version updates. The goal of this book is to teach you how Aspire works and how you can use it for building and deploying distributed applications of any complexity level. While it doesn't cover all possible things you can do with Aspire (as there are way too many of these things to cover in a single book), it does explain all of the fundamental principles that will allow you to become a competent user.

In .NET Aspire Made Easy you’ll discover:

The anatomy of a .NET Aspire application
How to set up and use the Aspire dashboard
Hosting Docker containers in Aspire
Detailed examples of Aspire integrations—from databases to distributed caches
Deploying Aspire apps to production with Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

The groundbreaking .NET Aspire framework makes it easy to locally launch distributed applications in a single process, so you can run apps in development the same way they’ll work in production. .NET Aspire Made Easy teaches you to use this powerful framework to build reliable distributed apps without flaky emulators or the need to disable half your services.

about the book
In .NET Aspire Made Easy you’ll discover the fundamentals of Aspire: how Aspire code is structured, how its components all work together, and how to integrate Aspire apps with databases, message brokers, and other infrastructure. The book is packed with solutions to common and not-so-common problems—from making service discovery work with SignalR clients, to deploying Aspire applications in cloud environments. Throughout, you’ll get your hands dirty with real-world examples of large-scale applications, including an e-commerce app and a social media platform.

about the reader
For .NET developers who know C#. No experience with distributed applications needed.