Welcome to Aspire

Build distributed apps without the complexity.

Aspire gives you a unified, code-first toolkit to compose, debug, and deploy distributed apps and agents — all from a single AppHost.

Get started What is Aspire?

Quick start

1. Check prerequisites

   Ensure you have the required SDK, container runtime, and tooling installed on your machine.

   View prerequisites
2. Install the Aspire CLI

   Get the command-line tooling that scaffolds, runs, and manages your Aspire projects.

   Install now
3. Build your first app

   Follow the quickstart to create a multi-service application wired up with a database in minutes.

   Start building
4. Deploy your app

   Ship to Azure, Kubernetes, or any cloud. Your local dev topology translates directly to production.

   Deploy now

Explore key concepts

What is Aspire?

Discover why Aspire is the fastest way to build production-ready cloud applications — unified tooling that eliminates complexity.

Aspire explained

The AppHost

Define your entire app architecture in code — C#, TypeScript, and more. No YAML, no configuration drift — just code that describes services and dependencies.

See how it works

Understanding resources

Stop writing boilerplate connection strings. Aspire resources automatically wire up services, databases, caching, and cloud integrations.

Learn resource modeling

Deployment & topology

Deploy anywhere with confidence. Your local dev setup automatically translates to Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, or any cloud provider.

Deploy all the things

Ready to simplify your stack?

Join thousands of developers building production-grade distributed apps with less code, fewer tools, and more confidence.

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