I agree that there's a bit of boilerplate, but in this case it's boilerplate that's normally already handled when you're using GenericHost or WebHost builders - which will setup all this Configuration, Logging and Dependency Injection for you (take a look here for an example https://dfederm.com/building-a-console-app-with-.net-generic...). I don't know what kind of console apps you're writing, but if they require DI and environment-specific configuration files then you'd likely be better off using GenericHost. Setting all this up by hand is a bit cumbersome, but I don't think they were really intended to be used that way.