Aspire docs: What's new for April 2025

Welcome to what's new in the Aspire docs for April 2025. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.

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Updated articles

• Orchestrate Python apps in Aspire
  • Initial draft of diagnostic redesign
  • Fix the Python article
• Quickstart: Build your first Aspire solution - Split content
• Tutorial: Add Aspire to an existing .NET app - Update the add aspire to existing tutorial

Fundamentals

New articles

• Orchestrate resources in Aspire

Updated articles

• Aspire and launch profiles - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Aspire orchestration overview - Split content
• Aspire service defaults - Update service defaults and add filtering details
• Aspire setup and tooling - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Aspire templates - Add dev-cert details to templates content
• Custom HTTP commands in Aspire - Split content
• Dashboard configuration - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Enable browser telemetry - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Explore the Aspire dashboard - Update the Explore the Aspire Dashboard article for v9.2.0
• External parameters - #3063 - Rename parameter name to not be 'value'
• Orchestrate resources in Aspire
  • Initial draft of diagnostic redesign
  • Split content
• Persist Aspire project data using volumes or bind mounts - Update the "Persist Aspire project data using volumes" article
• Security considerations for running the Aspire dashboard - Rename configs-replace prefix
• Standalone Aspire dashboard - Rename configs-replace prefix

Database

Updated articles

• Aspire Milvus database integration - Split content
• Aspire MongoDB database integration - Split content
• Aspire Oracle Entity Framework Core integration - Split content
• Aspire Qdrant integration - Split content
• Tutorial: Deploy an Aspire project with a SQL Server Database to Azure - Update the Tutorial: Deploy an Aspire project with a SQL Server Database to Azure

Messaging

Updated articles

• Aspire Apache Kafka integration - Split content
• Aspire Azure Event Hubs integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• Aspire Azure Service Bus integration
  • Split content
  • Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• Aspire Azure Web PubSub integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion
• Aspire NATS integration - Split content
• Aspire RabbitMQ integration
  • Split content
  • Clarify how to set credentials for the RabbitMQ management plugin

Caching

Updated articles

• Aspire Redis® distributed caching integration - Correct keyed IDistributedCache registration and usage

Security

Updated articles

• Aspire Azure Key Vault integration - Removes obsolete API: Add breaking changes for AzureOpenAIDeployment obsoletion

Deployment

Updated articles

• Deploy an Aspire project to Azure Container Apps using the Azure Developer CLI (in-depth guide) - Terminate inline azd code snippet

Community contributors

The following people contributed to the Aspire docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.

• alistairmatthews - Alistair Matthews
• a510 - Ahmad Ibrahim
• dracan - Dan Clarke
• gabynevada - Elvis Nieves
• mip1983 - Matthew Paul
• paulomorgado - Paulo Morgado
• ryanspain - Ryan Spain