A small monorepo of Aspire hosting helpers that fill gaps in the stock Azure integrations. Each helper is an independent, self-contained NuGet package that depends only on public Aspire + Azure.Provisioning APIs — so it lifts out cleanly (and could be contributed back upstream).

Aspire is how we build cloud-native .NET now. One AppHost model describes the whole system — the app, its dependencies (SQL, Redis, Service Bus…), and how they wire together — and Aspire turns that into a local run (service discovery, containers, injected connection strings, health checks; no Docker Compose, no YAML) and the Azure Bicep to deploy it. The infrastructure stops being a separate, hand-maintained artifact and becomes C# that lives next to the app.

At SSW that shift has been a real accelerant. Across 1,000+ enterprise engagements the slow part was rarely the app — it was standing up and re-standing-up the surrounding infrastructure for each client. Aspire collapses that: the same model gives every project a consistent local F5 experience and a repeatable path to Azure, so teams spend their time on the domain, not on plumbing. It's our recommended default for cloud-native .NET, baked into the SSW.CleanArchitecture template that most new projects start from.

Which is exactly why the last mile matters. Aspire's convenience is only worth having if what it provisions is production-safe — and out of the box a few defaults aren't (every database identity gets db_owner; grant scripts assume public network access). These helpers harden that generated infrastructure — least-privilege database roles, private-endpoint plumbing — so the "it just works" path doesn't quietly ship over-privileged, publicly-exposed resources to a client.

More will land here over time.

dotnet build

Each helper lives under src/<PackageId>/ with its own README. Requires the .NET 10 SDK (matching Aspire 13.4.x).

Every helper is a packable NuGet project. To publish one to nuget.org and use trusted publishers.

dotnet pack -c Release

A package's major.minor tracks the Aspire version it targets (e.g. 13.4.x → Aspire 13.4.x); the patch is the package's own revision.

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