.NET Aspire — From Local Development to Global Connectivity

At this year’s NTK 2025 conference, I had the opportunity to present a session titled
“.NET Aspire: od A do Ž — od lokalnega razvoja do povezave s svetom.”

The talk explored how .NET Aspire simplifies building, running, and observing distributed applications — from local development and debugging to real-world deployments.

What We Covered

• What .NET Aspire really is — a collection of templates, tools, and packages for building observable, production-ready distributed apps.
• The role of AppHost, ServiceDefaults, and the Aspire Dashboard.
• How Aspire differs from (and improves on) traditional Docker Compose setups.
• How to run multi-service apps, manage environments, configure dependencies, and observe everything in one place.
• How Aspire integrates seamlessly with AI models, databases, Redis, Python, and more.

Demo Repository

All examples and demos from the session are publicly available on GitHub:
👉 github.com/RaspeR87/aspire/tree/main/NT2025

You’ll find complete Aspire-based scenarios — from simple orchestration samples to complex multi-service setups with observability and AI integrations.

About the Talk

The slides are available here:
📑 NTK 2025 — .NET Aspire od A do Ž

Thanks to everyone who joined the session!
If you’re experimenting with Aspire, feel free to fork the demos, adapt them for your own environment, and share your experiences.

That’s all folks!

Cheers!
Gašper Rupnik

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