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Dapr

Dapr is a free and open source runtime system designed to support cloud native and serverless computing. Its initial release supported SDKs and APIs for Java, .NET, Python, and Go, and targeted the Kubernetes cloud deployment system.

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Dapr
DeveloperMicrosoft
Initial releaseOctober 16, 2019 (2019-10-16)
Stable release
v1.15.4 / April 4, 2025 (2025-04-04)1
Written inGo
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeCloud native runtime system
LicenseInitially MIT License, now Apache License 2.0
Websitedapr.io
Repositorygithub.com/dapr/dapr

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) is a free and open source runtime system designed to support cloud native and serverless computing.2 Its initial release supported SDKs and APIs for Java, .NET, Python, and Go, and targeted the Kubernetes cloud deployment system.34

The source code is written in the Go programming language. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0 and hosted on GitHub.5

Dapr is a CNCF project and graduated in November 2024.6


Architectural approach of Dapr:7
Microservice application
Services written in Go, Python, .NET, …
↕    ↕    ↕
HTTP API / gRPC API
Service-to-
service invocation
State
management
Publish and
subscribe
Resource
bindings &
trigger
Actors Distributed
tracing
Extensible…
Dapr
Any cloud or edge infrastructure
See also

See also

References

References

Further reading

Further reading

  • Bedin, Davide (2020). Practical Microservices with Dapr and .NET: A developer's guide to building cloud-native applications using the Dapr event-driven runtime. Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1800568372.
  • Schneider Bai, Haishi; Schneider, Yaron (2020). Learning Dapr: Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications. O'Reilly UK Ltd. ISBN 978-1492072423.
  • Gatev, Radoslav (2021). Introducing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr): Simplifying Microservices Applications Development Through Proven and Reusable Patterns and Practices. Apress. ISBN 978-1484269978.
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