Workshop summary

Hello and welcome to this workshop about building distributed, cloud-native systems in .NET. In this workshop we are going to cover breaking systems down to smaller pieces, using specialised tech to solve particular problems to allow independent deployment and scaling as well as building with cloud in mind.

Let's first make sure you have everything required to follow along this workshop. You will need to have the following software installed:

1. Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider or Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit installed
2. .NET 9
3. Latest .NET Aspire Workload
4. Docker or Podman
5. Minikube
6. Azure CLI
7. Lens or k9s (Optional)
8. Insomnia (Optional)
9. A Free Tier Azure Account

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If you don't want to you don't have to follow along as I am presenting things. However, it would be good to take the exercises.