Getting started with Aspire & Aspirate: No Dockerfile components selected.

[cataggar]

I'm just getting started with Aspire & Aspirate. I attempted to use the dotnet new aspire-starter template and then modify the AppHost/Program.cs to add a Docker container.

var builder = DistributedApplication.CreateBuilder(args);

var api = builder
    .AddProject<Projects.Aspir8_ApiService>("api");

builder.AddContainer("apiContainer", "mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:5.0")
    .WithDockerfile(".")
    .WithReference(api);

builder.Build().Run();

But when I run aspirate build, I get the error No Dockerfile components selected. Skipping build and publish action..

I put everything in a GitHub repo to reproduce at https://github.com/cataggar/aspire-starter .

cd Aspir8.AppHost
aspire init
az acr login -n cataggar26acr
aspirate build --disable-secrets=true

Example output:

~/ms/aspire-starter/Aspir8.AppHost> az acr login -n cataggar26acr
Login Succeeded
~/ms/aspire-starter/Aspir8.AppHost> aspirate build --disable-secrets=true

     _                    _           ___  
    / \     ___   _ __   (_)  _ __   ( _ )
   / _ \   / __| | '_ \  | | | '__|  / _ \
  / ___ \  \__ \ | |_) | | | | |    | (_) |
 /_/   \_\ |___/ | .__/  |_| |_|     \___/
                 |_|
Handle deployments of a .NET Aspire AppHost


── Handling Aspirate State ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Loading state from C:\Users\cataggar\ms\aspire-starter\Aspir8.AppHost\aspirate-state.json.
Would you like to use all previous state values, and skip re-prompting where possible ? [y/n] (y): n
(?) Done:  State has been disabled for this run. Only secrets will be populated.

── Handling Aspirate Secrets ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────Secrets are disabled.

── Handling Configuration ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────Successfully loaded existing aspirate bootstrap settings from '.'.

── Handling Aspire Manifest ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────Generating Aspire Manifest for supplied App Host
(?) Done:  Created Aspire Manifest At Path: C:\Users\cataggar\ms\aspire-starter\Aspir8.AppHost\manifest.json

── Selecting Required Components ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

── Gathering Information about deployables ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Gathering container details for each project in selected components
(?) Done:  Populated container details cache for project api
Gathering Tasks Completed - Cache Populated.

── Handling Projects ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Building all project resources, and pushing containers

Executing: dotnet publish "C:\Users\cataggar\ms\aspire-starter\Aspir8.AppHost\../Aspir8.ApiService/Aspir8.ApiService.csproj" -t:PublishContainer --verbosity "quiet" --nologo -r "linux-x64"
-p:ContainerRegistry="cataggar26acr.azurecr.io" -p:ContainerRepository="api" -p:ContainerImageTag="latest"
(?) Done:  Building and Pushing container for project api
Building and push completed for all selected project components.

── Handling Dockerfiles ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
No Dockerfile components selected. Skipping build and publish action.

 ?? Execution Completed ??

[MangMax]

I also had this problem, hopefully someone will answer it.

[davidfowl]

Better to ask this on https://github.com/prom3theu5/aspirational-manifests

[davidfowl]

Might be a good time to try out the new Kubernetes publisher https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/whats-new/dotnet-aspire-9.2#-deployment-improvements