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Choose your Aspire path for your stack.

Aspire is a code-first orchestration and observability layer for distributed applications. Start with the path that matches your repo, runtime, or workflow.

Build your first appWhat is Aspire?

Choose your path

1. Build your first app

   Start with the guided quickstart for a new multi-service Aspire application.

   Start building
2. Add Aspire to an existing app

   Model the services, frontends, containers, and shared infrastructure you already run today.

   Add Aspire
3. Use the dashboard standalone

   Run the Aspire Dashboard against any OpenTelemetry-enabled app, even without a full AppHost.

   Use the dashboard
4. Use AI coding agents

   Give coding agents access to the same app model, resources, logs, and traces that you use.

   Work with agents

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

Understand the resources, relationships, and wiring that make the AppHost the center of your distributed application model.

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

Take the next step with Aspire.

Deploy the app you just built, or bring Aspire into an existing repo and model the stack you already run.

Deploy your first appAdd Aspire to an existing app