aspire

# Aspire — Polyglot Distributed-App Orchestration Aspire is a **code-first, polyglot toolchain** for building observable, production-ready distributed applications. It orchestrates containers, executables, and cloud resources from a single AppHost project — regardless of whether the workloads are C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, Rust, Bun, Deno, or PowerShell. > **Mental model:** The AppHost is a *conductor* — it doesn't play the instruments, it tells every service when to start, how to find each other, and watches for problems. Detailed reference material lives in the `references/` folder — load on demand. --- ## References | Reference | When to load | |---|---| | [CLI Reference](references/cli-reference.md) | Command flags, options, or detailed usage | | [MCP Server](references/mcp-server.md) | Setting up MCP for AI assistants, available tools | | [Integrations Catalog](references/integrations-catalog.md) | Discovering integrations via MCP tools, wiring patterns | | [Polyglot APIs](references/polyglot-apis.md) | Method signatures, chaining options, language-specific patterns | | [Architecture](references/architecture.md) | DCP internals, resource model, service discovery, networking, telemetry | | [Dashboard](references/dashboard.md) | Dashboard features, standalone mode, GenAI Visualizer | | [Deployment](references/deployment.md) | Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, App Service | | [Testing](references/testing.md) | Integration tests against the Ap...