The document introduces Udaiappa Ramachandran, a cloud expert and CTO at Akumina Inc., highlighting his involvement with .NET Aspire and various cloud technologies. It outlines the framework's building blocks, including service defaults, orchestration, service discovery, and deployment options, accompanied by a demo setup and relevant code snippets. Additionally, it provides links to resources for further exploration and a standalone dashboard setup using Docker.

1. Udaiappa Ramachandran (Udai)
Web: https://udai.io
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/udair
.NET Aspire

2. About me
 Udaiappa Ramachandran (Udai)
 CTO/CSO @ Akumina Inc.,
 Microsoft MVP
 Cloud Expert – Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google
 Organizer – New Hampshire CLOUD .NET User Group
https://meetup.com/nashuaug

3. Agenda
 Introduction to .NET Aspire
 Building Blocks
 Demo

4. .NET Aspire Building Blocks
 Service Defaults
 Dashboard
 Orchestration
 Service Discovery
 Integrations
 Deployment

5. .NET Aspire Service Defaults
 Observability
 Resiliency
 Health Checks

6. .NET Aspire Orchestration
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var cache = builder.AddRedis("cache").WithRedisCommander();
var api = builder.AddProject<Projects.AspireDemo_Api>("aspiredemo-api")
.WithReference(cache);
builder.AddProject<Projects.AspireDemo_Web>("aspiredemo-web")
.WithReference(api);
builder.Build().Run();

7. .NET Aspire Service Discovery
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var cache = builder.AddRedis("cache").WithRedisCommander();
var api = builder.AddProject<Projects.AspireDemo_Api>("aspiredemo-api")
.WithReference(cache);
builder.AddProject<Projects.AspireDemo_Web>("aspiredemo-web")
.WithReference(api);
builder.Build().Run();
builder.Services.AddHttpClient<UserService>(c =>
{
var url = "https+http://aspiredemo-api";
c.BaseAddress = new(url);
});

8. .NET Aspire Dashboard
 Structured Logs
 Metrics
 Distributed Traces
 Dependencies

9. CNCF Cloud Native Landscape
https://

10. .NET Aspire Integrations

11. .NET Aspire Deployment Options
 HOW YOU DO IT TODAY
 AWS CDK
 AZURE DEV CLI
 dotnet run--publisher manifest--output-path aspire-manifest.json
 azd init
 azd infra synth //it outputs files that is created by azd up
 azd up
 VISUAL STUDIO

12. .NET Aspire Standalone Dashboard
Visit https://aspiredashboard.com
//Bash
docker run --rm -it -p 18888:18888 -p 4317:18889 -d --name aspire-dashboard
-e DOTNET_DASHBOARD_UNSECURED_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS="true"
mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:9.0
//PowerShell
docker run --rm -it -p 18888:18888 -p 4317:18889 -d --name aspire-dashboard -e
DOTNET_DASHBOARD_UNSECURED_ALLOW_ANONYMOUS="true"
mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire-dashboard:9.0
OTLP Key Command: docker logs aspire-dashboard
Browse to: http://localhost:18888/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/fundamentals/dashboard/

13. References
 https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire
 https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire/start
 https://github.com/dotnet/aspire-samples
 https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire
 https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire/blog
 https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Aspire/docs
 https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire/hosting-integration
 https://aka.ms/dotnet/aspire/client-integration
 https://github.com/dotnet/aspire-samples/tree/main/samples/AspireWithAzureFunctions
 https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-dotnet-worker
 https://github.com/dotnet/aspire
 https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspire/serverless/functions
 https://github.com/integrations-on-dotnet-aspire-for-aws

14. Thank you for your time and trust!
Nashua CLOUD .NET User Group