Production Readiness for Dapr on AKS: Upgrades, Disaster Recovery, and Lessons Learned

Production readiness starts where most tutorials end. Installing Dapr, deploying sidecars, and proving the building blocks are necessary milestones, but they do not answer the operational questions: How will you upgrade without moving every workload at once? Which state must survive a lost cluster? Can another region actually receive traffic? How quickly can you undo a bad change? ...

October 31, 2026 · 14 min · 2962 words · Jurgen Allewijn

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