Microsoft steers Aspire to a polyglot future

"I've looked at Aspire before as it's long been one of the more interesting parts of Microsoft's developer tools, taking a code-first approach to all aspects of development and configuration. Instead of a sprawl of different (often YAML) files to configure services and platforms, Aspire uses a single code-based AppHost file that describes your application and the services it needs to run."

"Along with the platform team at Microsoft, the growing Aspire community is developing an expanding set of integrations for what Aspire calls resources: applications, languages, runtimes, and services. There's a standard format for building integrations that makes it easy to build your own and share them with the rest of the Aspire community, adding hooks for code and OpenTelemetry providers for Aspire's dashboard."

"Much of its capability comes from its architecture and its code-based approach to defining the components of your applications. Using AppHost to bring together your code is the key to building polyglot applications in Azure. It lets you mix and match the code you need: a React front end, a Python data and AI layer, and Go services for business logic. You define how they're called and how they're deployed, whether for test or for production, on your PC or in the cloud."

Aspire has removed .NET from its name and moved to a new site as a general-purpose environment for building, testing, and deploying scalable cross-cloud applications. The framework replaces scattered configuration files with a single code-based AppHost file that describes applications and required services. The platform team and community are building integrations called resources—covering applications, languages, runtimes, and services—using a standard format with hooks for code and OpenTelemetry. The architecture and code-first approach enable polyglot applications, allowing combinations such as React front ends, Python data and AI layers, and Go business services with flexible deployment targets.

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