Dapr on Kubernetes and AKS
From Dapr fundamentals and a fast local development loop to AKS integration, building blocks and production operations.
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Practical guidance for building and operating distributed applications with Dapr on Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service.
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Latest October 2026
Dapr moves recurring distributed-application concerns behind portable HTTP and gRPC APIs. This collection follows a practical path through service invocation, state, messaging, secrets, workflows, observability, security and day-two operations, with Kubernetes and AKS as the primary environments.
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The conceptual foundation for understanding Dapr's sidecar model, application building blocks and fit on Kubernetes and AKS.
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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 …
Securing and Scaling Dapr for Production on AKS
A Dapr-enabled application can work perfectly with one replica and still be unprepared for production. The sidecar may have no resource requests, every application may be able to …
Observability for Dapr on AKS: Traces, Metrics, and Logs
A request can fail even when every Kubernetes pod is Running. The application may be waiting for a Dapr component, a retry may mask a slow dependency, or a call may reach the …
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 …
Pub/Sub Messaging with Dapr and Azure Service Bus on AKS
A synchronous request establishes a direct dependency: the caller pauses while the destination handles the task. This approach is suitable when an immediate response is required. …
State Management with Dapr on AKS
Persisting a shopping cart often involves database-related tasks: choosing a client library, setting up a connection pool, managing credentials, serializing the model, retrying …