Group multiple types of resources under a parent

[Kralizek]

Now that the Aspire dashboard supports grouping resources under a parent, I was wondering if it's possible to group resources of different types under a common parent.

My use case:
My team is developing a service that will be used internally by other teams. I plan to create an emulator of the service to facilitate their development experience. Also, I want to provide them with a Aspire hosting integration to quickluy spin up all the needed parts of the emulator. The emulator will include multiple resources (relational database, service, blob storage, etc).

Ideally, I don't want to clutter their dashboards with all the services and I thought about using the grouping functionality to hide all the components.

What's the best approach here?

[engineering87]

Hello @Kralizek,
you can group any resource types under one parent in Aspire by using:

var emulator = builder.AddProject<Projects.EmulatorHost>("emulator");

builder.AddPostgres("db").WithParentRelationship(emulator);
builder.AddProject<Projects.EmuService>("svc").WithParentRelationship(emulator);
builder.AddAzureStorage("blob").WithParentRelationship(emulator);

This only affects the dashboard UI, use WaitFor(...) for startup ordering if needed.

[Kralizek]

Grazie! Ideally, I wish I could have a "fake" node/resource that puts all resources on the same level. Kind of a meta-resource. But I haven't been playing around with the new APIs so maybe my problem is already solved!