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10-Day .Net Aspire Challenge: Day 5 — Apache Kafka
Step-by-step guide on how to use the .Net Aspire Kafka component in Visual Studio.
Introduction
.Net Aspire framework is used to develop cloud and production-ready distributed applications. It consists of components to handle cloud-native concerns such as Redis, Postgres etc.
Prerequisites
- Install .Net 8
- Install Visual Studio 2022 version 17 or higher
- .Net Aspire Workload
- Container runtime such as Docker Desktop



Objectives
Learn how to create a starter project using .Net Aspire with the Apache Kafka component.
Github Sample: The solution structure is divided into the following projects
- DotnetAspireChallenge.ApiService
- DotnetAspireChallenge.AppHost
- DotnetAspireChallenge.ServiceDefaults