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In this Azure Friday episode, Scott Hanselman and Tulika Chaudharie show how to take an Aspire application from local development to Azure App Service for Linux. They demonstrate how to create and configure an Aspire project, deploy its frontend, backend, and dashboard as App Service resources, and use the hosted Aspire Dashboard to understand the running application. They also explore how the Aspire agent integration can help generate the required configuration and simplify the deployment experience. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Creating an Aspire project 03:35 - Configuring…
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Azure Friday
Scott Hanselman · Tech & Science · English
Scott Hanselman sits with engineers who build and run Azure services — weekly conversations on new features, best practices and Microsoft cloud.
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