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.NET Aspire for cloud-native orchestration. Covers AppHost configuration, service defaults, resource configuration, service discovery, and the Aspire dashboard. Load this skill when setting up local development orchestration, service discovery, or Aspire-managed infrastructure, or when the user mentions "Aspire", "AppHost", "service defaults", "service discovery", "orchestration", "Aspire dashboard", "AddProject", "WithReference", or "cloud-native .NET".

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# .NET Aspire

## Core Principles

1. **AppHost orchestrates; it is never deployed itself** — Aspire's core job is the local development experience: starting services, databases, and message brokers together. Modern Aspire also generates deployment assets (`aspire publish` for docker-compose/Kubernetes manifests, `aspire deploy` for Azure Container Apps) — but the AppHost process itself stays a dev/build-time tool, not a production runtime.
2. **Service defaults are your baseline** — The `ServiceDefaults` project configures OpenTelemetry, health checks, and resilience for all services in one place.
3. **Use Aspire integrations** — Aspire has built-in integrations for PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, SQL Server, and more. They handle connection strings, health checks, and tracing automatically.
4. **The dashboard is your observability tool** — Use the Aspire dashboard for local development tracing, logging, and metrics instead of setting up Seq/Grafana locally.

## Patterns

### AppHost Configuration

```csharp