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Support child resources #57
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Hi,
I've been using this since pre-release and now in a production environment and I could NOT have orchestrated everything in a single AppHost.cs, so thanks a lot, this is great :)
I was thinking though, that some resources could benefit from having separate child resource kits. For example, creating a VNET and then 10 subnets still ends up being a really big file with lots of concerns.
I could just extract the subnets to different kits right now, but they are built based on the parent VNET resource (var snet = vnet.AddSubnet()) and the BuildResource() method is run without any explicit order I believe, so we'd need a a way to define a dependency here. E.g. [ResourceDefinition<AzureSubnetResource>("snet-1", dependsOn: "vnet")].
Other examples: sql databases, service bus topics/queues/subscriptions, storage options, blob containers.
Thoughts?
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kieronlanning commentedon Nov 12, 2026
Thanks @jrunestone! It's great to know others are using this too - I love this idea.
If you have any examples of how you might think this would look, I'll more than happily take a look.
I'd need to ensure there's not infinite recursion issues of course, but that should be transparent to the caller...
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jrunestone commentedon Nov 12, 2026
Hi @kieronlanning!
I didn't have time to give you some examples there :) Looks promising thanks, I'll be sure to try it out when there's a release.
kieronlanning commentedon Nov 12, 2026
@jrunestone Release 2.0.0-prerelease.1 is heading to nuget as I type this - it's only a pre-release, so it can be changed before a stable release.
Examples and Details can be found here - https://github.com/purview-dev/aspire-resourcekit/blob/main/docs/wiki/Hierarchies.md
Let me know what you think!