Simplifying Microservices with .NET Aspire
.NET Aspire was conceived to simplify the testing of interacting microservices on development machines. In the Running your microservices on Kubernetes section of Chapter 8, Practical Microservices Organization with Kubernetes, we listed two testing techniques we can adopt on our development machines:
- Testing the interacting microservices with minikube while debugging each single microservice with the bridge technique
- Exploiting Visual Studio native support for Docker to debug and test our microservices while they interact through a Docker virtual network
While the minikube technique is complete and more realistic, it is time-consuming, so most of the testing/debugging is performed with Docker virtual networks.
.NET Aspire provides a simpler alternative to the direct usage of Docker networks. Moreover, it offers a simple way to configure the interaction between microservices and between each microservice and...