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Announcing Aspire 13.2
Aspire 13.2 brings TypeScript AppHost authoring, an agent-native CLI, Foundry integration, and more.
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Aspire 13.2: Bun Support and Container Enhancements
Aspire 13.2 keeps the JavaScript story moving with Bun for Vite, more predictable containers, and small but meaningful fixes across debugging and builds.
Free Your Terminal with Detached Mode in Aspire 13.2
Aspire 13.2 brings detached mode to the CLI. Run your AppHost in the background, free your terminal, and let coding agents start, inspect, and manage your app without blocking.
New Aspire database integrations
Aspire 13.2 brings MongoDB Entity Framework Core and Azure Data Lake Storage integrations, plus quality-of-life improvements to existing database clients.
Running Multiple Instances of an Aspire AppHost Without Port Conflicts
Aspire 13.2 introduces isolated mode, letting you run multiple instances of the same AppHost in parallel without port conflicts. Learn how the --isolated flag solves development and testing workflows.
Agentic development aspirations: build, run, observe — without more Markdown
AI agents can write code but struggle to run and test it. Aspire gives your agent a codified app model to build, run, and observe your whole stack.
Aspire Docs in Your Terminal (and Your AI’s Brain)
Aspire 13.2 ships aspire docs, a CLI for browsing, searching, and reading official aspire.dev docs from your terminal, with the same source of truth available to AI skills and automation.
Aspire 13.2: Dashboard Gets Smarter Export and Telemetry
Aspire 13.2 brings powerful new dashboard features for exporting and importing telemetry, querying telemetry via API, and improved GenAI telemetry visualization.
TypeScript AppHost in Aspire 13.2: same app model, different syntax
Aspire 13.2 enables TypeScript developers to define AppHosts directly in TypeScript, with the same streamlined Aspire application model.
Announcing Aspire 13.2
Aspire 13.2 brings TypeScript AppHost authoring, an agent-native CLI, Foundry integration, and more.
Aspire Conf is Coming! Join us Live on March 23
Save the date and tune in for our free, livestream event on March 23. Discover Aspire and learn how it can transform the way you build and deploy your distributed apps and agents.
Securing Aspire Apps with Microsoft Entra ID
Learn to secure Aspire distributed applications with Microsoft Entra ID authentication. Use AI skills with GitHub Copilot for a 5-minute setup, or follow the detailed guide to understand JWT Bearer protection, OIDC sign-in, and automatic token handling.
Adding Aspire to a Python RAG Application
This blog post documents the transformation of the azure-search-openai-demo (a Python/TypeScript RAG application) through the addition of Aspire for local development and observability. It demonstrates how Aspire can enhance polyglot applications without requiring rewrites.
Aspire for JavaScript developers
Aspire 13 brings comprehensive JavaScript and TypeScript support to cloud-native development, enabling you to orchestrate Node.js applications, Vite frontends, and JavaScript services alongside your .NET projects with unified tooling and seamless integration.
Scaling AI Agents with Aspire: The Missing Isolation Layer for Parallel Development
Scaling AI agent development with Aspire and Git worktrees by solving port conflicts through automatic port allocation scripts and an MCP proxy layer that enables parallel AI agents to orchestrate and debug complete distributed systems simultaneously.
Aspire 13.1 – Our holiday gift to you
Aspire 13.1 is here with CLI-based MCP for AI agents, dashboard improvements, Azure updates, and TLS termination support.
Aspire Integrations, Batteries Included
Aspire provides a *batteries included* approach through **integrations**
Python is First Class in Aspire 13
Aspire 13 introduces first-class Python support with dedicated APIs for hosting Python applications, modules, and ASGI web apps alongside your .NET services.
Pipe dreams to pipeline realities: an Aspire Pipelines story
A deep dive into the evolution of Aspire Pipelines from basic callbacks in version 9.4 to the sophisticated pipeline execution model in Aspire 13, covering deployment orchestration, concurrency, and state management.
Celebrating Community Contributions in Aspire 13
Celebrates Aspire 13.0 community contributions, highlighting key PRs that improved App Service, Kusto workflows, dashboards, and cross-language support.
Migrating from Microsoft Learn to aspire.dev
Learn how we migrated all Aspire docs from Learn to the new website aspire.dev learn
Aspire Multi-Repo Microservices – Windows 365 Integration Journey
How Windows 365 extends Aspire to streamline multi-repo microservice development using microservice resources, emulators, automated seed data, and cloud-based end-to-end validation.
Aspire 13 – Aspireify anything
Aspire 13 is here with revamped JS and Python experiences, new AI-focused grations, and a new iteration of deployment tooling.
💫 Welcome to the New Aspire: Your Stack, Streamlined
Aspire goes polyglot. Explore the new Aspire.dev — a unified, open-source platform for building, observing, and deploying distributed apps in any language.