Running the solution with .NET Aspire

In Chapter 2, we added .NET Aspire to the solution, which contained only the games API service. In Chapter 3, we added a SQL Server database running in a Docker container without keeping state. Here, we’ll extend the .NET Aspire configuration by using SQL Server running in a Docker container using a volume and configure the bot service to access the games API.

Configuring a Docker container for SQL Server

Using a Docker container with .NET Aspire can be orchestrated using .NET code – with extension methods of the IDistributedApplication interface:

Codebreaker.AppHost/Program.cs

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var sqlPassword = builder.AddParameter("SqlPassword", secret: true);
var sqlServer = builder.AddSqlServer("sql", sqlPassword)
  WithDataVolume("codebreaker-sql-data", isReadOnly: false)
 .AddDatabase("CodebreakerSql");
  var gameAPIs...