.NET Aspire Accelerator: Fast-Track to Cloud-Native Development

10/22/2025 at NDC Porto in Porto, Portugal

This workshop teaches .NET Aspire through hands-on development of a multi-service application. You’ll leverage a browser-based frontend communicating with .NET backend services and both SQL and NoSQL databases. The project leverages industry-standard OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics, configures service discovery for inter-service communication, and uses .NET Aspire’s dashboard for monitoring and service health during development. You’ll work with containerized dependencies, replace manual connection strings with Aspire’s integration providers, and add .NET Aspire’s features into an existing application. Additionally, attendees will craft deployments to Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes, leveraging IDE tools and GitHub Actions workflows for CI/CD automation. Attendees leave with a GitHub repo with extensive samples and the courseware to continue learning or apply the knowledge in their own projects.