Modern cloud-native developer environments are fantastic. Frameworks like .NET Aspire have revolutionized local development by providing a unified developer dashboard, automatic service discovery, and OTLP telemetry collection.
But what happens when it's time to deploy your microservice topology on-premises?
If your target is IIS on Windows Server or a systemd service on Linux, you've likely realized that deploying the standard .NET Aspire stack on-prem is a complex puzzle. There is no native hosting model for IIS, gRPC telemetry port mapping is fragile, and the dashboard's constant WebSocket connections can consume excessive resources on on-premises virtual machines.
Enter AppPipe.Hosting—a lightweight, developer-friendly NuGet package designed specifically to bring the best features of .NET Aspire to your on-premises environments.
The Problem: On-Premises Microservice Orchestration is Hard
