[Aspire][Azure Container App] Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols, Version=7.1.2.0

[ryanheath]

We are running into a problem that only occurs when deploying to azure app container with Aspire.
A certain version of an assembly cannot be found or loaded.

Running locally on a dev system doesn't have this problem.

The issue seems related to
AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet#1558
and Azure/azure-functions-host#5894

but referencing 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols, Version=7.1.2.0' does not help.
Neither the azurefunction tag in the project <_FunctionsSkipCleanOutput> (because it is not an azure function but a minimal api project)

Somewhere else I have read 'known' assemblies are removed from the output directory to keep the container image small.
How can we stop this from happening?

// Ryan

[ryanheath]

We have found a solution by:

• moving away from System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt.JwtSecurityTokenHandler to Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens.JsonWebTokenHandler
• and explicitly reference the assemblies Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.OpenIdConnect and System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt both currently at version 7.6.2