Questions about the aspire dashboard Dockerfile

[WeihanLi]

From the aspire-dashboard Dockerfile

• https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/blob/08e0e7c3345a75af15ca0c1733d4f07676e0997d/src/aspire-dashboard/8.1/cbl-mariner-distroless/amd64/Dockerfile
• https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-docker/blob/08e0e7c3345a75af15ca0c1733d4f07676e0997d/src/aspire-dashboard/8.1/cbl-mariner-distroless/arm64v8/Dockerfile

ENV \
    # Unset ASPNETCORE_HTTP_PORTS from base image
    ASPNETCORE_HTTP_PORTS= \
    # Aspire Dashboard environment variables
    ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://0.0.0.0:18888 \
    DOTNET_DASHBOARD_OTLP_ENDPOINT_URL=http://0.0.0.0:18889 \
    DOTNET_DASHBOARD_OTLP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_URL=http://0.0.0.0:18890

ENTRYPOINT [ "dotnet", "/app/Aspire.Dashboard.dll" ]

I have a question about the ENV step, currently we unset the ASPNETCORE_HTTP_PORTS environment variable from base image and configure the ASPNETCORE_URLS instead, why not configure the ASPNETCORE_HTTP_PORTS to 18888 directly?

[lbussell]

It is because Aspire Dashboard currently has an issue using ASP.NET Core's "any IP" syntax. You can see more info here: #5190. Should be fixed in Aspire Dashboard 9.0.

[WeihanLi]

Thanks very much