title | description | ms.date |
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.NET Aspire Community Toolkit EventStore integration |
Learn how to use the .NET Aspire EventStore hosting and client integration to run the EventStore container and accessing it via the EventStore client. |
11/21/2024 |
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In this article, you learn how to use the .NET Aspire EventStore hosting integration to run EventStore container and accessing it via the EventStore client.
To run the EventStore container, install the 📦 CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.EventStore NuGet package in the app host project.
dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.EventStore
<PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.EventStore"
Version="*" />
For more information, see dotnet add package or Manage package dependencies in .NET applications.
In the app host project, register and consume the EventStore integration using the AddEventStore
extension method to add the EventStore container to the application builder.
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventstore = builder.AddEventStore("eventstore");
builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>()
.WithReference(eventstore);
// After adding all resources, run the app...
When .NET Aspire adds a container image to the app host, as shown in the preceding example with the docker.io/eventstore/eventstore
image, it creates a new EventStore instance on your local machine. A reference to your EventStore resource (the eventstore
variable) is added to the ExampleProject
.
For more information, see Container resource lifecycle.
To add a data volume to the EventStore resource, call the Aspire.Hosting.EventStoreBuilderExtensions.WithDataVolume
method on the EventStore resource:
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventstore = builder.AddEventStore("eventstore")
.WithDataVolume();
builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>()
.WithReference(eventstore);
// After adding all resources, run the app...
The data volume is used to persist the EventStore data outside the lifecycle of its container. The data volume is mounted at the /var/lib/eventstore
path in the EventStore container and when a name
parameter isn't provided, the name is generated at random. For more information on data volumes and details on why they're preferred over bind mounts, see Docker docs: Volumes.
To add a data bind mount to the EventStore resource, call the Aspire.Hosting.EventStoreBuilderExtensions.WithDataBindMount
method:
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventstore = builder.AddEventStore("eventstore")
.WithDataBindMount(source: @"C:\EventStore\Data");
builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>()
.WithReference(eventstore);
// After adding all resources, run the app...
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Data bind mounts rely on the host machine's filesystem to persist the EventStore data across container restarts. The data bind mount is mounted at the C:\EventStore\Data
on Windows (or /EventStore/Data
on Unix) path on the host machine in the EventStore container. For more information on data bind mounts, see Docker docs: Bind mounts.
To add a log volume to the EventStore resource, call the Aspire.Hosting.EventStoreBuilderExtensions.WithLogVolume
method on the EventStore resource:
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventstore = builder.AddEventStore("eventstore")
.WithLogVolume();
builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>()
.WithReference(eventstore);
// After adding all resources, run the app...
The data volume is used to persist the EventStore logs outside the lifecycle of its container. The data volume is mounted at the /var/logs/eventstore
path in the EventStore container and when a name
parameter isn't provided, the name is generated at random. For more information on data volumes and details on why they're preferred over bind mounts, see Docker docs: Volumes.
To add a log bind mount to the EventStore resource, call the Aspire.Hosting.EventStoreBuilderExtensions.WithLogBindMount
method:
var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var eventstore = builder.AddEventStore("eventstore")
.WithLogBindMount(source: @"C:\EventStore\Logs");
builder.AddProject<Projects.ExampleProject>()
.WithReference(eventstore);
// After adding all resources, run the app...
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Data bind mounts rely on the host machine's filesystem to persist the EventStore logs across container restarts. The data bind mount is mounted at the C:\EventStore\Logs
on Windows (or /EventStore/Logs
on Unix) path on the host machine in the EventStore container. For more information on data bind mounts, see Docker docs: Bind mounts.
To get started with the .NET Aspire EventStore client integration, install the 📦 CommunityToolkit.Aspire.EventStore NuGet package in the client-consuming project, that is, the project for the application that uses the EventStore client.
dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.Aspire.EventStore
<PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.Aspire.EventStore"
Version="*" />
In the :::no-loc text="Program.cs"::: file of your client-consuming project, call the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.AspireEventStoreExtensions.AddEventStoreClient
extension method on any xref:Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.IHostApplicationBuilder to register an EventStoreClient
for use via the dependency injection container. The method takes a connection name parameter.
builder.AddEventStoreClient(connectionName: "eventstore");
Tip
The connectionName
parameter must match the name used when adding the EventStore resource in the app host project. For more information, see Add EventStore resource.
You can then retrieve the EventStoreClient
instance using dependency injection. For example, to retrieve the connection from an example service:
public class ExampleService(EventStoreClient client)
{
// Use client...
}
There might be situations where you want to register multiple EventStoreClient
instances with different connection names. To register keyed EventStore clients, call the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.AspireEventStoreExtensions.AddKeyedEventStoreClient
builder.AddKeyedEventStoreClient(name: "accounts");
builder.AddKeyedEventStoreClient(name: "orders");
Then you can retrieve the EventStoreClient
instances using dependency injection. For example, to retrieve the connection from an example service:
public class ExampleService(
[FromKeyedServices("accounts")] EventStoreClient accountsClient,
[FromKeyedServices("orders")] EventStoreClient ordersClient)
{
// Use clients...
}
For more information on keyed services, see .NET dependency injection: Keyed services.
The .NET Aspire EventStore client integration provides multiple options to configure the server connection based on the requirements and conventions of your project.
When using a connection string from the ConnectionStrings
configuration section, you can provide the name of the connection string when calling builder.AddEventStoreClient
:
builder.AddEventStoreClient("eventstore");
Then the connection string will be retrieved from the ConnectionStrings
configuration section:
{
"ConnectionStrings": {
"eventstore": "esdb://localhost:22113?tls=false"
}
}
The .NET Aspire EventStore Client integration supports xref:Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration. It loads the CommunityToolkit.Aspire.EventStore.EventStoreSettings
from configuration by using the Aspire:EventStore:Client
key. Consider the following example appsettings.json that configures some of the options:
{
"Aspire": {
"EventStore": {
"Client": {
"ConnectionString": "esdb://localhost:22113?tls=false",
"DisableHealthChecks": true
}
}
}
}
Also you can pass the Action<EventStoreSettings> configureSettings
delegate to set up some or all the options inline, for example to set the API key from code:
builder.AddEventStoreClient(
"eventstore",
static settings => settings.DisableHealthChecks = true);
The .NET Aspire EventStore integration uses the configured client to perform a IsHealthyAsync
. If the result is true
, the health check is considered healthy, otherwise it's unhealthy. Likewise, if there's an exception, the health check is considered unhealthy with the error propagating through the health check failure.