.NET Aspire Made Easy
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.NET Aspire Made Easy

The simplest way of building distributed apps in .NET

About the Book

.NET Aspire is a technology that completely revolutionized the .NET ecosystem. Nobody expected it, but it took the software engineering community by storm when it was released.

This technology makes developing, building, and deploying orchestrated distributed applications incredibly easy. Compared to other distributed application development frameworks, it's very straightforward to set up and learn.

Combined with containerization technology, Aspire allows developers to run whole distributed applications on a local development machine the same way as they would run in production. There is no longer any need to set up emulators or disable certain services. The whole thing can be run locally and that includes the services that would normally only be hosted in the cloud, such as Azure Service Bus.

This book will teach you how to use .NET Aspire in an easy-to-understand fashion. By the end of it, you will be able to build your own distributed applications.

It will start with the basics, such as the structure of an Aspire application, the usage of Aspire components, etc. We will then move on to more advanced topics, such as the usage of databases, message brokers, distributed cache, authentication and authorization, and so on. Finally, we will go through a few examples of realistic applications that can be built in Aspire, including a social media platform and a food delivery app. You will be able to use those as cookbook recipes for building your own applications of similar types.

Table of Contents:

1. Anatomy of an Aspire Application

2. Monitoring Aspire Apps

3. Health Checks and Their Importance

4. Integration-testing Distributed Applications

5. Application Security in Aspire

6. Hosting Containers in Aspire

7. Introduction to Aspire Components

8. SQL Database Components

9. Using NoSQL Database Components

10. Working With Distributed Cache Components

11. Using Message Brokers With Aspire

12. Deploying Aspire Apps to Production

13. Building a Food Delivery App

14. Hosting an E-commerce System

15. Managing a Social Media Platform

About the Author

Fiodar Sazanavets
Fiodar Sazanavets

I am a senior software engineer working for Microsoft. I have over a decade of professional experience and am a past recipient of the Microsoft MVP award. I primarily specialize in .NET and Microsoft stack. I am enthusiastic about creating well-crafted software that fully meets business needs.

Throughout my career, I have successfully developed software of various types and various levels of complexity in multiple industries. This includes a passenger information management system for a railway, distributed smart clusters of IoT devices, e-commerce systems, financial transaction processing systems, and more. I have also successfully led and mentored teams of software developers.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge with the community. This motivates me to mentor aspiring developers and create educational content, which includes blog posts, technical books, and online courses. I regularly write about software development on my personal website, scientificprogrammer.net.

Table of Contents

    • Introduction
      • Who is This Book For
      • Introduction to Distributed Systems
      • Overview of Orchestration
      • Books Structure
    • 1. Anatomy of an Aspire Application
      • Initial Setup
      • Getting Started With Aspire Starter Project
      • Orchestrating with .NET Aspire
      • Benefits of .NET Aspire
      • Setting Up .NET Aspire Orchestrator
      • Introducing Server Defaults
      • Service Discovery in .NET Aspire
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 2. Monitoring Aspire Apps
      • Components of Monitoring Systems
      • Monitoring Aspire Applications
      • Configuring The Telemetry
      • Viewing Information on The Dashboard
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 3. Health Checks and Their Importance
      • Importance of Health Checks in a Distributed App
      • Enabling Health Checks Inside Aspire Apps
      • Mapping Health Check Endpoints
      • Monitoring App Health in Production
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 4. Integration-testing Distributed Applications
      • Setting up Integration Tests in Aspire
      • Installing Required Dependencies
      • Examining an Aspire Test Method
      • Using Different Testing Frameworks
      • Expanding Test Functionality
      • What About Component Testing?
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 5. Application Security in Aspire
      • A Brief Introduction to Single Sign-on
      • Solution Setup
      • Using Service Discovery in Single Sign-on
      • Enforcing UI Authentication
      • Enforcing API Authentication
      • Passing JWT To API
      • Configuring Identity Provider
      • Securing Aspire Dashboard
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 6. Hosting Containers in Aspire
      • Docker Containers Overview
      • Keycloak Overview
      • Initial Setup
      • Adding a Keycloak Container to Aspire Host
      • Configuring Web Front-End App
      • Configuring API Service
      • Other Service Types Aspire Can Host
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 7. Introduction to Aspire Components
      • Redis Output Caching in The Starter Project
      • Configuring Aspire Components on The Host
      • Connecting to a Component From a Hosted Service
      • Viewing Components in the Dashboard
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 8. SQL Database Components
      • SQL Database Components Basics
      • Hosting a SQL Server Component
      • Hosting an Oracle Component
      • Hosting a PostgreSQL Component
      • Hosting a MySQL Component
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 9. Using NoSQL And Cloud Storage Components
      • Hosting a MongoDB Component
      • Working with Azure Cosmos DB
      • Azure Table Storage Integration
      • Interacting With Azure Blob Storage
      • Summary
      • Further Reading
    • 10. Working With Distributed Cache Components
    • 11. Using Message Brokers With Aspire
    • 12. Deploying Aspire Apps to Production
    • 13. Building a Food Delivery App
    • 14. Hosting an E-commerce System
    • 15. Managing a Social Media Platform

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