.NET Aspire makes spinning up a distributed application trivial, but what happens after deployment?

This session goes beyond the Aspire dashboard, focusing on production readiness. We will investigate how to configure Aspire for real-world Azure deployments, handling secrets, resilience patterns, and observability integration.

Topics:

Infrastructure as Code: How Aspire integrates with Bicep and Terraform for repeatable deployments.

Resilience: Implementing custom retry policies and circuit breakers using Microsoft.Extensions.Resilience inside the Aspire host.

Monolith vs. Microservice: Using Aspire to manage a Modular Monolith ("Modulith") before splitting it up.

What's New in Aspire 13: A look at the new features from the 2026 release cycle.