Bindings, Secrets, and Actors with Dapr on AKS
The first six parts of this series covered Dapr’s most familiar building blocks: service invocation, state management, and pub/sub. They solve application-to-application calls, state, and asynchronous messaging. Three other capabilities often appear beside them, but they solve different problems. Bindings connect an application to an external system through a trigger or an operation. Secret stores keep credentials out of component manifests. Actors give stateful entities an address and a single-threaded execution boundary. Dapr Workflow then coordinates longer-running, multi-step processes, including work performed by actors. ...