.NET 8 introduces support for publishing ASP.NET Core applications to native AOT for lightning-fast startup times & small, self-contained, native executables & containers. This session will provide an overview of when you might want to consider publishing native AOT for your ASP.NET Core APIs and demonstrate the benefits and compatibility considerations.

Why AOT?

Smaller apps
Faster startups
Less memory usage

Demo

Create a new Api Project and publish. The output is as below.

Self Contained Deployment

By default, the output is framework-dependent. If you want your output independent of the running environment, you may use self-contained. This will include the framework.

Output will include the framework runtime which makes the size very large.