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Aspire 13.6: Your dashboard gets memory
Aspire 13.6 keeps dashboard telemetry across runs, opens container exec shells right in the dashboard, adds first-party Java and Rust hosting, introduces portab...
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Bringing rich terminal experiences to Aspire
Aspire 13.5 introduced WithTerminal() for interactive terminal sessions on app resources. Aspire 13.6 builds on it with richer terminal emulation and docked terminals for REPLs. See how to enable, attach to, and automate terminal experiences in your app.
Aspire 13.5: Fresh pixels and better workflows
Aspire 13.5 refreshes the dashboard and aspire.dev, expands the Interaction Service, adds cross-scope Azure references and Kubernetes persistent volumes, and brings live terminals into the AppHost.
Aspire in VS Code: the 13.4 developer loop
Aspire 13.4 brings more of the local development loop into VS Code: AppHost CodeLens actions, live resource state, dashboard shortcuts, typed resource command prompts, TypeScript AppHost support, and multi-language debugging.
Distributed multi-agent systems with Aspire and Microsoft Agent Framework
Learn how Aspire, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Microsoft Foundry model, run, observe, and publish a distributed multi-agent AlpineAI ski resort demo.
Aspire Multi-repo Rollout at Scale with Agentic AI
This is part 2 blog of the windows 365 integration journey with Aspire. This blog focus to show how Windows 365 scaled Aspire adoption with reliability patterns and an agentic AI rollout system across 50+ repos.
Aspire 13.4 is here
Aspire 13.4 is here with TypeScript apphost GA, typed resource commands with results, server-side CLI log and telemetry search, more mature Kubernetes and AKS deployment, and more.
How Azure Chaos Studio ships with hermetic Aspire end-to-end tests
Learn how the Azure Chaos Studio team uses Aspire.Hosting.Testing to run hermetic, per-PR end-to-end tests across four services — with emulators, stubs, and no shared environments.
Your dev loop is full of tribal knowledge
Aspire turns a team's scattered tribal knowledge into an explicit, incrementally-adoptable app model that humans, scripts, and AI agents can all use.
Securing Azure apps with Aspire enterprise networking
Network security has a funny way of showing up late. You start with a web app, an API, storage, and Key Vault. The app works. The demo works. Everyone is happy. Then the production checklist shows up: That is usually the point where the application model and the infrastructure model start drifting apart. The app says "I need storage and Key Vault." The networking template says "I have seven subnets, two private DNS zones, a NAT gateway, a network security group, and a growing collection of comments explaining why nobody should touch any of it." Aspire makes this a lot nicer. The new Azure networking su...