Deploying aspire.dev with aspire deploy
A journey of rebranding, replatforming, dogfooding, and mild existential crises
In this post, I’ll walk you through the journey of how https://aspire.dev came to be—from the initial spark of rebranding to the technical challenges of deploying it with our own tools. It’s a story of design iterations, platform decisions, and the kind of dogfooding that makes you question your life choices… Spoiler: we made it work, and learned a lot along the way.
🕓 A bit of history
The first commit of dotnet/docs-aspire was November 10, 2023, but we were building out content for this well before then. Spawning itself into existence from an evolving extensions ecosystem (code named “R9”), Astra was the original name, before later becoming Aspire! The name still isn’t something I like, it’s too ambiguous, but it’s what we have now.
