Series: Aspire

Let's take a step back and talk about why .NET Aspire is relevant to today's developers, why they should care, and how to take an existing app and Aspire it.

The Aspire CLI provides a quick and easy way to access and work with Aspire from your command line.

With the arrival of Aspire 13, Aspire now provides an MCP server that your AI coding agent can access to see the logs of your running Aspire application.

One of the greatest features of Aspire is how easy it is to set up, configure, and work with databases.

Sometimes it can be really useful to add commands to your Aspire dashboard. It's easy to do and amazingly useful.

Aspire has basic support for OpenTelemetry out of the box. But what about when we're ready to do more.

For those who haven't kept up on Aspire in 2026, you'll find it has become a whole new beast.

Aspire now deploys to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AKS, and Azure Container Apps. We look at what each target does today and what's actually usable in …

I wrote about the Aspire CLI ten months ago. Here's what changed, and what I got wrong.

The Aspire dashboard is great. But sometimes you want your telemetry in a terminal.

Like so many things Aspire, a year makes all the difference, and support for AI coding agents has a whole new approach.