radius-project/radius

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Radius is an open-source, cloud-native application platform that lets developers model an entire application—its services and the infrastructure they depend on—as a single portable definition. Platform engineers supply swappable Recipes (Terraform/Bicep templates) that provision that infrastructure with built-in cost, operations, and security compliance across Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments.

Use cases

• deploy cloud-native applications across multiple clouds from one definition
• give developers self-service provisioning of databases, caches, and message queues
• enforce organizational infrastructure policy with reusable Recipes
• visualize an application's services and dependencies as an application graph
• standardize golden-path deployment workflows between developers and platform engineers
• run the same app definition on local Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and on-prem
• integrate Dapr microservice building blocks into application deployments

When to choose

• your teams deploy Kubernetes apps with backing infrastructure like databases and message brokers across multiple environments
• you want platform engineers to govern infrastructure while developers self-serve
• you need portable application definitions that avoid cloud vendor lock-in
• you want an explicit application model and dependency graph on top of Kubernetes

When to avoid

• you only deploy simple stateless containers without infrastructure dependencies
• your organization is committed to a single cloud's native tooling like Azure ARM or AWS CDK
• you need a fully mature GA product rather than a CNCF sandbox project
• you don't use Kubernetes as your deployment substrate

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deployment infrastructure-as-code configuration-management developer-tools microservices workflow-automation cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices developer-tools self-hosted go cli cloud windows application-platform recipes application-graph multi-cloud dapr platform-engineering bicep terraform cncf-sandbox portable-applications devops containers kubernetes docker linux macos

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