Container Lifetime for CosmosDB and Azure Storage Account (v9)

[obiwanjacobi]

I read about the new Lifetime() api to have persistent containers. I wanted to try that out on my CosmosDB and Azure Storage Account emulators that run in containers when I debug.

After some investigation the problem seems to be that the Resource type that the AddAzureCosmosDB() and AddAzureStorage() return is not of the correct 'container' type for the Lifetime() extension method to be available.

Is there any way to get these containers to be persistent (especially the CosmosDB one that takes a long time to fully start)?

Running dotnet9 and Aspire v9.

[rudiv]

Aspire 9 changed some of the signatures slightly.

var storage = builder.AddAzureStorage("storage")
    .RunAsEmulator(o =>
    {
        o.WithLifetime(ContainerLifetime.Persistent);
    // ...

var cosmos = builder.AddAzureCosmosDB("nosql")
    .RunAsEmulator(o =>
    {
        o.WithLifetime(ContainerLifetime.Persistent);
    // ...