Aspire Service Development

Overview

This is an advanced one-day workshop for .NET service developers to explore how Microsoft's Aspire platform eases developer friction in building services and service-oriented applications.

Format

This is a one-day instructor-lead workshop. It will include resources, sample code, discussion, and coding practices.

Overview

• What is Aspire?
• Creating An Aspire App Host
• Understanding Aspire Resources (Databases, queues, etc.)
• Enlisting existing .NET services into an Aspire application
• Observability in Aspire (the Aspire Dashboard and instrumentation)
  • Adding Custom Resources to the Dashboard, including Commands
• Adding, customizing, and exploring service defaults for Site Reliability (retries, circuit breakers, etc)
• Using Aspire for Heterogenous Apps - .NET backend and Angular Frontend (Backend for Frontend Pattern (BFF))
• Developer Testing with Aspire
• Understanding Aspire's Deployment Model
  • Aspire in the "pipeline"
  • Deploying to the Cloud (Azure, AWS)
  • Deploying to Kubernetes (OpenShift)