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How I architected a single codebase to seamlessly switch between Azure OpenAI, GitHub Models, Ollama, and Foundry Local without touching the API service When building my latest .NET Aspire application, I faced a common challenge: how do you develop and test with different AI providers without constantly rewriting your API service? The answer turned out to be surprisingly elegant - a configuration-driven approach that lets you switch between four different AI providers with zero code changes.

As I’m flying from Oslo to Amsterdam, I’m still buzzing with energy and inspiration from NDC Oslo 2025. It was an incredible week of learning, sharing, and connecting with some of the brightest minds in technology. From thought-provoking keynotes that challenged our assumptions to the epic The Linebreakers concert at Brewgata, every moment reinforced why each NDC conference but NDC Oslo remains one of the premier developer conferences in the world.

This is part 2 of the Containerizing .NET series. You can read the series of articles here: Containerizing .NET: Part 1 - A Guide to Containerizing .NET Applications Containerizing .NET: Part 2 - Considerations Considerations # Welcome to the second installment in our series on containerizing .NET applications. Building on the foundation laid in our first article-where we introduced Dockerfiles and the dotnet publish command-this piece delves into pivotal considerations for transitioning .NET applications into containers. As containers become a cornerstone of the ecosystem, understanding these factors is critical for developers aiming to enhance application deployment in containerized environments.

This article is part of C# Advent 2023. For more articles in the series by other authors, visit https://www.csadvent.christmas/. This is the first in a series of articles on containerizing .NET applications. We’ll explore how to containerize .NET applications using Dockerfiles and dotnet publish. Containers have become an essential part of the DevOps ecosystem, offering a lightweight, portable, and scalable solution for deploying applications. This process is crucial for developers looking to streamline app deployment in containerized environments, focusing on efficiency, security, compliance, and more.

This blog was posted as part of the C# Advent Calendar 2022. I really want to thank Matthew D. Groves and Calvin Allen for helping set this up! Look for #csadvent on Twitter! Make sure to check out everyone else’s work when you’re done here One of the great things about the configuration system in .NET is the type safety, dependency injection, and model binding. Something we can take advantage of is to validate our configuration on startup and fail if it doesn’t pass validation. Having that fast failure is awesome when working with containers and applications that have liveness and readiness probes.

What is NuGet? # NuGet is an essential packaging tool used in the .NET ecosystem. NuGet is how packages for .NET are created, hosted, and consumed, along with the tools for each of those roles. For many, NuGet is used through Visual Studio to install and manage packages. The dotnet CLI also provides functionality for adding packages, updating packages, and creating packages.