As I write this, less than a week after the end of .NET Conf 2023 and the release of .NET 8, .NET Aspire is in preview version (8.0.0-preview.1.23557.2). Therefore, it’s possible that some aspects may have changed by the time you read this article. During the .NET Conf 2023, Microsoft announced .NET Aspire, a new .NET workload designed to ease the development of applications and microservices in a cloud-native context.