Aspire – Orchestrate front ends, APIs, containers, and databases effortlessly

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Free and open source

Aspire is a developer-first, always-free, open-source platform. Join a thriving community and help shape the future of modern development.

Code-centric control

Define your stack in code—type-safe and readable. Run locally, deploy anywhere without architectural changes.

Modular and extensible

Orchestrate front ends, APIs, containers, and databases with zero rewrites. Extend Aspire to fit your stack—deploy anywhere.

Observability from the start

Built-in OpenTelemetry delivers logs, traces, and health checks automatically—debug faster with zero setup.

Flexible deployments

Deploy anywhere—Kubernetes, cloud, or on-prem. Aspire adapts to your environment for consistent deployments without rewrites.

Aspire is modular, composable, and extensible. Configure relationships, deployment options, and dev-time flags in one place. Learn more about the AppHost.

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

// Add frontend service

var frontend = builder.AddViteApp("frontend", "../frontend")

.WithHttpEndpoint(env: "PORT");

builder.Build().Run();

Built for your stack, Aspire orchestrates apps in C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and more—use the languages you prefer. Explore how to model your apps.

Built for local development, Aspire mirrors production environments on your machine, eliminating “works on my machine” issues for smooth deployments. Learn about deployment and app topology.

Local development with containerized services

Spin up and tear down complete staging environments for testing

Production cloud services—zero code changes

Redis

Shortlived container

PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

Local container

Frontend

Azure Static Web Apps

Use Aspire’s CLI to spin everything up locally or create deployment artifacts during your CI/CD. Dive in, and build your first Aspire app.

Monitor logs, metrics, and traces in real time with the ready-to-use OpenTelemetry dashboard, integrated directly into your workflow.

Multi-cloud, limitless integrations — Connect Aspire to Azure, AWS, or your own infrastructure. Tap into a vast ecosystem of integrations to power any stack, anywhere. Explore the integration gallery.

Don’t just take our word for it! From indie hackers to enterprises, developers like you are building faster and shipping with confidence using Aspire. Explore the community building Aspire.

Steven Price