🐘 Integrating PostgreSQL with .NET Aspire

This repository demonstrates how to integrate PostgreSQL with .NET Aspire, a powerful and modern framework for building cloud-native, distributed applications.

🚀 What is .NET Aspire?

.NET Aspire is a cloud-native development stack for .NET, designed to streamline microservice orchestration, observability, and integration with essential infrastructure like databases, message queues, and cloud services.

🛢️ Why PostgreSQL?

PostgreSQL is a robust, open-source, enterprise-grade relational database. It’s highly extensible and supports advanced data types and indexing features, making it ideal for modern applications.

Integrating PostgreSQL with .NET Aspire enables:

• Scalable and reliable data storage
• Entity Framework Core support
• Full observability and health checks

📘 Full Tutorial

Read the full tutorial here:
🔗 How to Integrate .NET Aspire with PostgreSQL

📚 What You'll Learn:

• Running PostgreSQL using Docker with Aspire
• Configuring Aspire to connect using builder.AddPostgres(...)
• Implementing data access using Entity Framework Core
• Applying database migrations and building APIs
• Viewing logs and health checks through Aspire tooling

🧰 Tech Stack

• .NET 8 / .NET Aspire
• ASP.NET Core
• PostgreSQL
• Entity Framework Core (Npgsql provider)
• Docker

🛠️ Getting Started

Prerequisites

• .NET 8 SDK
• Docker
• Visual Studio or VS Code

Run the Project

git clone https://github.com/saineshwar/Aspire_postgres.git
cd aspire-postgresql-integration
dotnet run --project AspireApp