Using Aspire for a Blazor web app - some questions

[DavidThielen]

Hi all;

I watched the discussion of Aspire at DEVIntersection and it has me interested. So a couple of questions:

First, is there a Microsoft guide to incorporating Aspire into a Blazor (Interactive Server) app? I can find Stack Overflow Q/As and some bits and pieces in some GitHub and reddit postings. But no comprehensive list of instructions. And not much from Microsoft itself.

Second, it talks up adding full HealthChecks. Does it have HealthChecks for Azure Maps and Azure OpenAI? Because I have looked far and wide and can't find that anywhere. If Aspire brings that in that is wonderful.

Third, does it integrate Blazor with Application Insights? And if so, can you provide the details. Again, this is an area that Microsoft has not documented and if Aspire integrates with Blazor where it is aware of a session/circuit start/end, what logged in user is tied to any activity, etc. - that's gigantic.

Fourth, does it provide a way to set up private VPNs, or some other mechanism, where I can limit access to some of the components to other components. For example, I have a 2nd app server that can only be called by the first app server (the first public app server is Blazor, the second is Python code and it a service for the first server). I also would like to limit the HealthCheck url to Azure. And of course, for the limited access items, allow access from the IP addresses of us developers.

Fifth, you say Aspire does all these things for us, which sounds wonderful. Do you document that in detail somewhere? That lets me know what I no longer have to explicitly do.

You sold me on Aspire with you presentation. Can you please provide me the above details so I can use it (without 2 - 6 weeks of struggle)?

thanks - dave