Using .NET Aspire in Production. Lessons learned by Oleksii Nikiforov

Описание: A Lead Software Engineer shares real-world experience implementing .NET Aspire in a complex Enterprise Search solution. Aspire is a cross-platform framework for Cloud-native applications that uses C# code to orchestrate and manage systems, offering more capability than Docker Compose.
Aspire's six key features include the Developer Dashboard (the "killer feature" built with Blazor using Open Telemetry for tracing), Orchestration (defining systems via C# AppHost), and Integrations (quick dependencies with automatic Health Checks, Telemetry, and DI).

Key lessons: Aspire can be adopted incrementally into existing systems without full commitment. Developers should expect to write custom hosting integrations for specific components. Deployment features using manifest generation are currently risky for complex production cases. Aspire excels primarily as a developer productivity tool for local development and quick onboarding.