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Radius: A Cloud-Native Application Platform

by Shriira Press

Radius, created at Microsoft and now a CNCF sandbox project, closes the gap between the developers who build cloud-native applications and the platform engineers who run them. Instead of scattering an app across loose Kubernetes manifests, Terraform modules, and cloud consoles, Radius models the whole thing — containers, the databases and queues they depend on, and the connections between them — as a single Application captured in a graph. This book builds that idea from the ground up: Applications and the Application Graph, Environments, Recipes, Resource Types, and Connections, then the in-cluster control plane, the path of a deployment, authoring Recipes and custom Resource Types, daily operations, and how to adopt Radius alongside Bicep, Terraform, and Dapr.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What Radius Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Applications and the Application Graph
4. 4Chapter 3 — Environments and Recipes
5. 5Chapter 4 — Connections and Resource Types
6. 6Chapter 5 — The Control Plane
7. 7Chapter 6 — Anatomy of a Deployment
8. 8Chapter 7 — Authoring Recipes and Resource Types
9. 9Chapter 8 — Operating Radius
10. 10Chapter 9 — Radius in Practice