About this tag
The container repl tag on WindowsForum.com collects discussion of interactive shells and REPL-style tooling that run alongside containers and cloud-hosted services. Coverage centers on Microsoft Aspire, the code-first toolchain for defining services, databases, and containers, including the 13.6 release that added authenticated database shells inside the Aspire dashboard, persistent dashboard data for traces, logs, and resource snapshots, first-party Java and Rust hosting packages, and a preview of Azure Container Apps Sandboxes as a deployment target. For developers working with .NET, containers, and hosted databases, these threads track how container repl workflows are evolving in Microsoft's tooling.
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    Microsoft Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboard Runs, Database REPLs and Java/Rust Hosting

    Two years is a long time to wait for a dashboard that remembers what happened five minutes ago. Microsoft's Aspire team shipped Aspire 13.6 on September 29, 2026, and its headline feature is persistent dashboard data. Traces, logs and resource snapshots now survive a restart of your whole stack...