Open a PowerShell terminal as Administrator and run the following commands:

• wsl --install (Windows Subsystem for Linux, required for Docker)
• Install Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows
• choco install dotnet-sdk git docker-desktop nodejs yarn azure-cli gh
• dotnet workload update and dotnet workload install aspire

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

• Install Homebrew, a package manager for Mac
• brew install --cask dotnet-sdk
• brew install git docker node yarn azure-cli gh
• dotnet workload update and dotnet workload install aspire
• dotnet dev-certs https --trust

Open a terminal and run the following commands:

• Install Wget

  sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install wget -y
  

• Install Microsoft repository

  source /etc/os-release
  wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/$ID/$VERSION_ID/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
  sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
  rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb
  

• Install Node repository

  curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_18.x | sudo -E bash -
  

• Install GitHub Package repository

  (type -p wget >/dev/null || (sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install wget -y)) \
  && sudo mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings \
  && wget -qO- https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null \
  && sudo chmod go+r /etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
  && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
  

• Update packages

  sudo apt-get update
  

• Install .NET SDK 8.0, Node, GitHub CLI

  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0 nodejs gh
  

• Install .NET Aspire workload

  sudo dotnet workload update && dotnet workload install aspire
  

• Install Yarn

  npm install --global yarn
  

• Install Azure CLI

  curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash
  

• Clean Architecture: The codebase is organized into layers that promote separation of concerns and maintainability.
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD): DDD principles are applied to ensure a clear and expressive domain model.
• Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS): This clearly separates read (query) and write (command) operations, adhering to the single responsibility principle (each action is in a separate command).
• Screaming architecture: The architecture is designed with namespaces (folders) per feature, making the concepts easily visible and expressive, rather than organizing the code by types like models and repositories.
• MediatR pipelines: MediatR pipeline behaviors are used to ensure consistent handling of cross-cutting concerns like validation, unit of work, and handling of domain events.
• Strongly Typed IDs: The codebase uses strongly typed IDs, which are a combination of the entity type and the entity ID. This is even at the outer API layer, and Swagger translates this to the underlying contract. This ensures type safety and consistency across the codebase.
• JetBrains Code style and Cleanup: JetBrains Rider/ReSharper is used for code style and automatic cleanup (configured in .DotSettings), ensuring consistent code formatting. No need to discuss tabs vs. spaces anymore; Invalid formatting breaks the build.
• Monolith prepared for self-contained systems: The codebase is organized into a monolith, but the architecture is prepared for splitting in to self-contained systems. A self-contained system is a large microservice (or a small monolith) that contains the full stack including frontend, background jobs, etc. These can be developed, tested, deployed, and scaled in isolation, making it a good compromise between a large monolith and many small microservices. Unlike the popular backend-for-frontend (BFF) style with one shared frontend, this allows teams to work fully independently.
• Shared Kernel: The codebase uses a shared kernel for all the boilerplate code required to build a clean codebase. The shared kernel ensures consistency between self-contained systems, e.g., enforcing tenant isolation, auditing, tracking, implementation of tactical DDD patterns like aggregate, entities, repository base, ID generation, etc.

Although some features like authentication and multi-tenancy are not yet implemented, the current implementation serves as a solid foundation for building business logic without unnecessary boilerplate.

• Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies: Azure is the leading Cloud Service Provider (CSP) when it comes to PaaS technologies. PlatformPlatform uses PaaS technologies which are fully managed by Microsoft, as opposed to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) technologies where the customer is responsible for the underlying infrastructure. This means that Microsoft is responsible for the availability of the infrastructure, and you are only responsible for the application and data. This makes it possible for even a small team to run a highly scalable, stable, and secure solution.
• Enterprise-grade security with zero secrets:
  • Managed Identities: No secrets are used when Container Apps connect to e.g. Databases, Blob Storage, and Service Bus. The infrastructure uses Managed Identities for all communication with Azure resources, eliminating the need for secrets.
  • Federated credentials: Deployment from GitHub to Azure is done using federated credentials, establishing a trust between the GitHub repository and Azure subscription based on the repository's URL, without the need for secrets.
  • No secrets expires: Since no secrets are used, there is no need to rotate secrets, and no risk of secrets expiring.
  • 100% Security Score: The current infrastructure configuration follows best practices, and the current setup code achieves a 100% Security Score in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This minimizes the attack surface and protects against even sophisticated attacks.
• Automatic certificate management: The infrastructure is configured to automatically request and renew SSL certificates, eliminating the need for manual certificate management.
• Multiple environments: The setup includes different environments like Development, Staging, and Production, deployed into clearly named resource groups within a single Azure Subscription.
• Multi-region: Spinning up a cluster in a new region is a matter of adding one extra deployment job to the GitHub workflow. This allows customers to select a region where their data is close to the user and local data protection laws like GDPR, CCPA, etc. are followed.
• Azure Container Apps: The application is hosted using Azure Container Apps, which is a new service from Azure that provides a fully managed Kubernetes environment for running containerized applications. You don't need to be a Kubernetes expert to run your application in a scalable and secure environment.
• Scaling from zero to millions of users: The Azure Container App Environment is configured to scale from zero to millions of users, and the infrastructure is configured to scale automatically based on load. This means the starting costs are very low, and the solution can scale to millions of users without any manual intervention. This enables having Development and Staging environments running with very low costs.
• Azure SQL: The database is hosted using Azure SQL Database, which is a fully managed SQL Server instance. SQL Server is known for its high performance, stability, scalability, and security. The server will easily handle millions of users with single-digit millisecond response times.