AZ 2009: Build Distributed Apps with .NET Aspire

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in building observable, resilient distributed .NET applications with .NET Aspire orchestration, service discovery, dependencies, configuration, telemetry, testing, and deployment. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain .NET Aspire concepts, AppHost projects, service defaults, resources, projects, executables, containers, and local orchestration
• Create a distributed application topology with clear dependencies, startup behavior, endpoints, configuration, and developer workflows
• Configure service discovery, references, connection strings, parameters, secrets, databases, caches, messaging, and external resources
• Use health checks, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, configuration, dependency injection, and resilient client patterns
• Collect logs, metrics, traces, correlation, dashboards, diagnostics, and evidence for troubleshooting distributed behavior
• Test services, dependencies, failure conditions, startup, integration, performance, and repeatable local environments
• Package services with containers and plan deployment to supported Azure or container platforms
• Apply identity, secrets, networking, least privilege, configuration management, monitoring, rollback, and support documentation

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.