General guidance for Aspire component development

[Kralizek]

I'm about to start working on a Aspire component to host an emulator of a service that my team is offering to other teams.

The general idea is to have a aspnetcore project whose behavior can be customized via environment variables, package it as a container using the SDK and publish a hosting package built around on the ContainerResource.

I wonder if it's possible to have a single app host that I can use to test both the emulator and the Aspire component.

Am I being too ambitious?

Should I just have two app hosts? One for developing/testing the service and one for developing/testing/showcasing the component?