Code to cloud with .NET Aspire

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Aspire claims to take .NET code to the cloud with an opinionated stack that wires ASP.NET Core primitives into service discovery, resilience, health checks, and a local dashboard that surfaces traces and metrics via OpenTelemetry on by default. The demo builds an apphost/outpost that launches Redis and Postgres containers, injects connection strings into projects, adds Aspire NuGet components and a service defaults library, then emits a manifest consumed by azd to deploy to Azure Container Apps (preview3 ships now; internal workshop drew ~1,000 questions).

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1. 0:00Welcome
2. 1:12What is .NET Aspire
3. 2:37Challenges of Aspire
4. 4:21Evolution of .NET cloud-native
5. 6:47.NET Aspire fundamentals
6. 8:10Project Tai influence
7. 10:39Teams contributions
8. 12:48Customer feedback
9. 14:13Aspire principles
10. 17:23Developer-first approach
11. 19:27Community contributions
12. 20:30Core components
13. 22:18New Aspire project demo
14. 24:43Aspire dashboard overview
15. 26:07Adding Redis and PostgreSQL
16. 28:34Integrating ASP.NET Core API
17. 31:07API to PostgreSQL connection
18. 33:17PostgreSQL Aspire components
19. 35:44EF Core with Aspire config
20. 37:11Aspire loose coupling
21. 38:59Testing the setup
22. 39:41Service defaults and telemetry
23. 42:54Adding service defaults
24. 44:00Logs and telemetry
25. 45:44OpenTelemetry dashboard
26. 49:20Backend service discovery
27. 51:47HTTP client config
28. 53:33Frontend-backend testing
29. 54:17Backend telemetry
30. 55:20Deploying to Azure
31. 1:00:20Q&A

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