Radius Documentation

Radius enables developers and the platform engineers that support them to build cloud-native applications
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What you can do with Radius

πŸ” Understand and operate your applications

See your whole application, including services, infrastructure, and their connections, as a live graph to onboard faster, debug issues, and manage changes with confidence.

Explore applications β†’

πŸ—οΈ Standardize how your teams build and deploy

Define reusable Resource Types, Recipes, and environments so every team follows the same golden paths and meets your cost, security, and operations requirements.

Discover Resource Types β†’

🧰 Give developers self-service infrastructure

Let application teams provision the databases, caches, and messaging they need on demand, while platform engineers control how that infrastructure is created with Recipes.

Learn about Recipes β†’

πŸš€ Ship your app to any environment

Define your application once and run it consistently across dev, cloud, edge, and on-prem, without rewriting it for each target.

Understand environments β†’

Integrations

🧱 Use your existing Infrastructure as Code

Use the infrastructure-as-code tools you already know, Bicep and Terraform, to author Radius applications and Recipes.

Author Recipes β†’

☁️ Run on your platforms

Run Radius on Kubernetes and connect it to your cloud platforms, including Azure and AWS.

Configure providers β†’

πŸ”„ GitOps

Deploy and manage Radius applications through your GitOps workflows using tools like Flux.

Deploy with GitOps β†’

πŸ“Š Backstage-based Dashboard

Visualize and interact with your applications, environments, and Recipes in the Radius dashboard, built on Backstage.

Explore the dashboard β†’

Get involved

🀝 Contribute

Help improve Radius through code, docs, or by sharing your experience.

Start contributing β†’

πŸ—ΊοΈ Roadmap

See what’s planned for Radius and where the project is headed.

View the roadmap β†’

πŸ’¬ Community

Connect with the Radius community to ask questions and stay up to date.

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