Introducing the Aspire Community Toolkit

Principal Cloud Advocate

We’re excited to announce the official release of the Aspire Community Toolkit which you can get on NuGet and supports Aspire 9! The Community Toolkit contains a collection of integrations and extensions that help you build with Aspire.

🤔 What is the Aspire Community Toolkit?

Aspire has grown massively since it was first released, tackling more and more scenarios, which in turn brings the need for more integrations to support these kinds of applications. While many of these integrations are built by the Aspire team, they can’t cover everything. That’s where the Aspire Community Toolkit comes in.

The team behind the Community Toolkit wanted to create a place where third parties could contribute their own integrations and extensions to the Aspire ecosystem. This way, the community can help shape the future of Aspire and make it even more powerful, freeing the focus of the Aspire team to work on the core framework. We’ve put a lot of effort into making the Community Toolkit easy to use and contribute to, and easy to maintain through examples, documentation, testing, and more.

🚀 What’s in the Aspire Community Toolkit?

Today, the Community Toolkit contains nearly a dozen integrations across both hosting and client, with more being added all the time. Here are some of the highlights:

Ollama hosting.
Go andJava/Spring application hosting.
Additional features forNode.js like using Yarn or pnpm as package managers.

You can find all the integrations available in the Community Toolkit on theofficial documentation, or by checking out theGitHub repository.

🎉 Get started with the Aspire Community Toolkit

To get started with the Aspire Community Toolkit, you can install it from NuGet via the Visual Studio tooling, VS Code tooling or the .NET CLI. Let’s take the the Ollama hosting integration as an example. Navigate to your app host project and install the package:

Or via the command line:

dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.Ollama

Then, you can configure the Ollama hosting integration in yourProgram.cs file:

var ollama =        builder.AddOllama("ollama")               .WithDataVolume()               .WithOpenWebUI();var llama = ollama.AddModel("llama3.2");builder.AddProject<Projects.MyApi>("api")       .WithReference(llama);

Now you can provide theollama resource to any of the other services in the app host and consume it with a client library, like OllamaSharp (which we have anintegration for too!).

🤝 Contribute to the Aspire Community Toolkit

The Aspire Community Toolkit couldn’t exist without the community. Big thanks to@justinyoo,@tommasodotNET,@FBoucher,@Alirexaa and@Mrxx99 for their contributions to the project so far!

But of course, we welcome contributions from the community. If you have an integration or extension that you think would be useful to others, we’d love to see it! You can find out more about contributing on theGitHub repository.